DeskScapes 2.5 Released
Animated wallpapers for XP and Vista!
Thursday, February 26, 2009 by Island Dog | Discussion: 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/
Reply #2 Thursday, February 26, 2009 4:49 PM
Reply #4 Thursday, February 26, 2009 6:03 PM
I'm not sure what you are talking about. IE has nothing to do with DeskScapes.
Reply #5 Thursday, February 26, 2009 6:56 PM
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!
Reply #6 Thursday, February 26, 2009 7:15 PM
Hi Hunter1942.
We are looking into the issue and will post an update once we find what's going on. 
Thanks for your patience.
Reply #7 Thursday, February 26, 2009 7:20 PM
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!
Reply #8 Saturday, February 28, 2009 4:35 PM
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."
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Reply #1 Thursday, February 26, 2009 4:10 PM
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.