#windows 7 tutorial

Downloading and Enabling DreamScene

First of all, you're going to need a bit of software called Windows 7 Dreamscene Activator 1.1 which you can download for free here. 

After you've downloaded the file, extract it to your desktop (for handiness sake) using WinZIP or WinRAR, or any file extraction program you have. (If you don't have any how have you survived you can download these with a quick search on google).

Right-click on the .exe file on your desktop and select "Run as Administrator" and okay any security warnings that come up (I promise it runs fine and isn't a virus). 

A dialogue should pop up and you can just click on "Enable DreamScene".

(Mine's only grey because it's already been enabled.)

Okay so once that's done, you'll need a video!

Getting your video ready

The video you want will have to be in MPEG or WMV format to work properly. If you know what video you want but don't know how to download it, or you have your video and don't know how to convert it, I recommend you try AnyVideoConverter (available for free download here). It's a pretty straightforward piece of software that'll let you download videos from YouTube and a bunch of other sites, and also convert them to pretty much any format you can think of. 

If you use Any Video, remember to go into Options > Online Video, and select high quality or 1080p options for your downloads. For your desktop you're going to want to find pretty high-res videos to make sure it looks pretty damn bad-ass. So tweak the convert options to optimal size and frame-rate depending on what the original settings of your file are. 

After it's converted, simply right-click on the video and click on "set as desktop background". 

And boom, it'll be set!

Extra things

Okay so you might notice the text on your desktop icons has gone a bit weird. IT'S OKAY! THAT'S FIXABLE.

What you want to do is right-click on your desktop and click on "personalize", then click on "desktop background" and at the bottom where it'll say position > tiled, change it to "fill". 

You'll need to go back to your video file and right-click > set as desktop background again, but all problems will be solved. 

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