on windows8 it took round about 6 months for Stardock to make Windowblinds work, i would say just wait until a working version is available if you already upgraded and extend your subscription once a working version for windows10 is released otherwise you might end up loosing half of your subscription time.

DeskScapes should work on Windows 10.

I'll have a list of what's compatible coming up soon.

https://forums.wincustomize.com/469524/page/1/ 

Island Dog's list.

A media player window opening indicates you have less capable (AKA rubbish) video codecs which do not support windowless mode.

Regarding pausing, are you using the new Task View feature in Windows 10 as I believe that will cause Deskscapes to disable itself as it believes the wallpaper has been changed.

http://download.cnet.com/K-Lite-Mega-Codec-Pack/3000-13632_4-10794603.html

It's what I use on win8.1.

That codec pack made no difference in my problems. :/ It freezes still after a game, and does the little window mode thing too.

What was the task view thing you mentioned? I can't find it in any settings.

I don't think they should list Deskscapes as being compatible with Windows 10 just yet, people are popping up left and right with problems.

In fact, while installing the so-called "upgraded" OS, it told me the ONLY installed program I had that was NOT compatible was Deskscapes. Go figger.....Not to worry,........ I've already dumped the POS and gone back to Win7.

Typical issues with Deskscapes are caused by Microsoft no longer including appropriate Codecs with their OS since Windows 8 and beyond, necessitating the end user locating and downloading appropriate ones personally.

They are freely available for various image formats for personal use, however commercial/volume licences are prohibitive to the point of making such software as Deskscapes commercially unaffordable and are thus non-viable to include.

Also, the 'EOL' of Windows 7 is Jan 14 2020 .... about 5 years away...

Windows10 installed here 2 days ago and everything is working.  Looks like Microsoft got it right this time.

could u pass that over? I only have the lastest setup file

. whats this about compatibility mode for deskscapes.i had to do no such thing nor did windows 10 tell me deskscapes wasnt compatiable.

this is weird if its doing that to some.i installed normal from a fresh windows 10 pro . perhaprs it gets weirded out if you had it on 8 and upgraded and got confused in registry i have no clue.but on 10 it installs without a hitch.i play alot of full screen games and it works fine,only freezes on task view.i dont think its entirely deskscapes but some dream files might not be able to be handled.i havent seen this case yet but i usually only stick with a few bg choices.i dont usually keep dreams i wont use ona regular basis.

im unsure i think my dreams called alien dream

im assuming the site descriptions state if they use other codecs but very few including myself concern ourselves about reading that.i just take a dream from the site and go with it.

correction its called alien worlds

https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/dream/6745/

works fine as long as you dont use task view.guess people for now will just have to get used to the ones that work,until they update it.im sure theres alot that work and alot that dont.just gotta play with it a bit.so far so good tho