How to Set Screensavers as Wallpapers in XP
By Madhur Kapoor on Jul 30, 2007 in Tutorials, Windows
Windows Vista has a feature called Dreamscene which allows you to set any video as your wallpaper . Unfortunately Dreamscene is not available for XP users . But there are plenty of ways you can do it in XP too . Not so long ago i wrote a post explaining how the same can be achieved using VLC player . This time we are going to use an Open Source Software .
Vital Desktop is an open source software which does the same thing but with screen savers . The best thing about this is that it doesnt slow down your system . After downloading the software , just enable it through the Right click menu on the desktop . After that , select the screensaver by opening the config file , tha path is “ c:\Program Files\VitalDesktop\VDConfig.exe “ or where ever you may have installed . You will get a menu as shown above . Just select the screensaver you like and click apply . The job is done .
Take a look at my desktop above by having a screensaver . I am sorry for not being able to upload a video as i get very low speed at college .
This really comes in handy , I was actually unaware of this !
Thanks for sharing
CristianR | Jul 30, 2007 | Reply
That’s an awesome tool for XP. Great that it’s also not slowing things down.
Nice for show off
Shankar Ganesh | Jul 30, 2007 | Reply
Looks good to me. I’m going to try this one out.
Stumbled.
Brown Baron | Jul 30, 2007 | Reply
I think i got to get one of those Vista things as this feature is only notable feature i have liked about Vista if someone develops this kind of software for XP it will be awesome i think…
Ehsan | Jul 31, 2007 | Reply
Cool software, I’m also going to try it out.
Nirmal | Jul 31, 2007 | Reply
Cool! I’m going to try this out.
Haris | Aug 2, 2007 | Reply
Wow that’s wonderful. You deserve a link back on that one
TipsoSaurus | Aug 2, 2007 | Reply
Thanks guy for appreciating it .
Madhur Kapoor | Aug 2, 2007 | Reply
I have seen some animating desktops built on gifs and other technology. But this post made me aware that i can use screensavers as my desktop background.
praveen | Aug 6, 2007 | Reply
Cool finding! This is what I’ve been looking for…Thanks!
Jacklin | Mar 27, 2008 | Reply