Deskscape and Dreamscene question

I am unable to use an animated desktop as I used vLite on my copy of Vista Ultimate and have no access to Dreamscene, guess I deleted a program it needed. I installed Deskscape 1.02 or 1.00  but that didn't help. Is there a version that will work or is Dreamscene needed? Thankyou

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Do you get an error message?

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No error message but my desktop goes black with icon's remaining fine. Edit:  And I do get a message that Dreamscene is required to be installed but not everytime.

 

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I did find a beta for Dreamscene and installed that but still get the message it's needed.

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Did you run Windows Update and check that under 'Ultimate extras' you've installed Windows Dreamscene.

Also if you've done that, just uninstall and re-install deskscapes, if still the problem persists,

then I feel, as vLite is a component to make Vista run faster, it has disabled dreamscene on your system.

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I ran Window's Update but there are none available to me. I have also installed Dreamscape's 4-5 time's, new codec pack's and anything else I can think of.  It may be that Dreamscene was part of Media Centre which I did delete.

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Simply restore your system to a back date when dreams were working for you. This is the easiest possible way out but be sure to save your downloaded skins or other stuff since then before doing it.

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Thank's but this my first attempt at installing Dream's and System Restore has been disabled for year's,  long before this install so wouldn't help and every image of Vista is of it modified. Look's like I traded an animated desktop for speed, too bad but a more than fair trade off.

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Got it working by downloading Dreamscape for Window's 7, Deskscape 1.02 and enabling custom>show translucent selection rectangle (it already was, had to activate custom) in control panel>performance information>visual effect's.