Weekend Project: Add Pizzazz To Your Desktop Wallpaper

Often changing Desktop wallpaper creates more excitement in your working environment. Beautiful soothing landscape can energy your productivity. OK, may be not, but is is fun to do nonetheless!

As the computing hardware and the video capability are getting more powerful at lesser cost. Why not move away from the yesteryear static wallpaper to a more dynamic landscape with a looped, subtle, full-motion video.

For lucky Vista Ultimate users, Microsoft includes the DreamScene feature. (Right mouse click on Desktop – Customize -Select Desktop Wallpaper). However, if you run other version of Vista or Windows XP. We will show you few options available to accomplish this.

1. Use the VLC player: VLC has a built-in feature that allows you to play videos as your wallpaper. Watch few examples of HD video you can use for your wallpapers! Read the full tutorial HERE!
2. For Vista user only.
   

   Stardock Deskcapes Beta previewing version can be download for free. This Beta version includes 1 .dream file for you to play with. When the product is ready for commercialization, it will cost $19.95. You can find lots of dream files HERE

3. Another solution to have a video playing as wallpaper -not really a Desktop wallpaper – Youtube and other Flash-based video Web sites offer many interesting videos that can be transformed easily to your Windows screen saver. InstantStorm is a free utility that can make it happen with few easy steps. Tutorial HERE!

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