DeskScapes 2.5 Released

Animated wallpapers for XP and Vista!

Published on February 26, 2009 By Island Dog In WinCustomize News

DeskScapes 2.5 has been released today by Stardock. DeskScapes is an application which lets you run animated wallpapers, also called .dreams, on your Windows desktop. It used to be that only Windows Vista Ultimate users could take advantage of a feature like this, but DeskScapes opens this up to users of all versions of Windows Vista, and Windows XP!

DeskScapes also goes beyond just playing videos as wallpapers, as it can also display dynamically generated content, .dreams activated by triggers such as time of day, and more.

The DeskScapes 2.5 update brings:

Improved XP compatibility
Stand-alone installation

DeskScapes is part of the Object Desktop suite of desktop enhancements. A free version is available which is limited to the bundled .dreams and will also play any Dynamic Master Dream purchased from WinCustomize.com. The full version will play any .dream file and is available here.

For more information, visit https://www.stardock.com/products/deskscapes/

Comments

BoneyardBrew

on Feb 26, 2009

I have been looking foward to this release for a while!

I just noticed DeskScapes 2.5 was released for Windows XP and I immediately installed it. Everything went smoothly, except for when I tried to apply a Dream, it come up with an error saying "An Exception occurred while trying to run "Shell32.dll,Control_RunDll Desk.cpl,,@deskscapes"

I know this is the first release for XP, but this has happened to multiple people thus far. I was wondering if you had a solution to this problem.

I am running Windows XP 32-Bit SP3, if that could be of any use.

Thanks.

DaveRI

on Feb 26, 2009

A good example of the answer to the question "Why should I buy an Object Desktop subscription?". Thanks Stardock, I had thought that I would never get to play with these on XP!

Hebes

on Feb 26, 2009

You need IE7 to use DeskScapes? That's bull!

Island Dog

on Feb 26, 2009

Hebes

reply 3

You need IE7 to use DeskScapes? That's bull!

I'm not sure what you are talking about. IE has nothing to do with DeskScapes.

BoneyardBrew

on Feb 26, 2009

Island Dog,

Do you know why I am recieve the following error using Deskscapes 2.5 for XP?

"An Exception occurred while trying to run "Shell32.dll,Control_RunDll Desk.cpl,,@deskscapes"

I know I posted this before, and I don't want to nag, I'm just not sure if you saw it or not.

Thanks!

Island Dog

on Feb 26, 2009

Hi Hunter1942.

We are looking into the issue and will post an update once we find what's going on.

Thanks for your patience.

BoneyardBrew

on Feb 26, 2009

Island Dog

reply 6

Hi Hunter1942.

We are looking into the issue and will post an update once we find what's going on.

Thanks for your patience.

Alright, thanks for the update!

BoneyardBrew

on Feb 28, 2009

I also seem to get the following error as of lately.

"Run a DLL as a App has encounted a problem and needs to close."

1Eres

on Mar 22, 2009

Sorry, that still has some bugs with Vista, from when I have installed it, at times explorer goes to crash, thing that was not happened before never. Then some dreams don't play properly as they would owe. In short I hope in some decisive patches.

Jaytrajik

on Apr 24, 2009

I'm running windows XP and it worked fine for me after I downloaded an MPEG-2 video decoder

BlackX777

on May 08, 2009

When it is ready for Windows 7?

TwoWolves

on May 15, 2009

When I run it I get some message about my video card not being supported. I have the latest nVidia card - is that really not supported?

ZubaZ

on May 15, 2009

TwoWolves

reply 12

When I run it I get some message about my video card not being supported. I have the latest nVidia card - is that really not supported?

Have you reviewed the FAQ? https://www.stardock.com/products/deskscapes/faq.asp

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