Aero Waterfall effect?

[Jon Davis]

People were telling me that they saw a cool waterfall effect in Aero when
Vista was being demo'd at conferences. This is an effect that was removed
from the beta and RTM releases of Vista, and I was looking forward to seeing
it coming down the pike from Windows Update.

I'm assuming that these people were not talking about just a waterfall WMV
file playing on the desktop (the ability to play videos on the desktop did
indeed come through Windows Updates), but I admit, they might have been; my
friends who saw it demo'd said it was associated with minimizing the
windows, and I took that as something like what you see with Window FX from
Stardock but on steroids, but it could very well mean the
Windows-desktop-as-video feature. *yawn*

That said, has anyone found any good HD-WMV loop videos that do not jump and
are high quality and that work good on the desktop?


Jon

 

[Tom Porterfield]

People were telling me that they saw a cool waterfall effect in Aero when
Vista was being demo'd at conferences. This is an effect that was removed
from the beta and RTM releases of Vista, and I was looking forward to
seeing it coming down the pike from Windows Update.

I'm assuming that these people were not talking about just a waterfall WMV
file playing on the desktop (the ability to play videos on the desktop did
indeed come through Windows Updates), but I admit, they might have been;
my friends who saw it demo'd said it was associated with minimizing the
windows, and I took that as something like what you see with Window FX
from Stardock but on steroids, but it could very well mean the
Windows-desktop-as-video feature. *yawn*

That said, has anyone found any good HD-WMV loop videos that do not jump
and are high quality and that work good on the desktop?

I suspect they are talking about DreamScene, which adds the ability to have
a video as your desktop background, since at several conferences where that
was demo'd the video used was that of a waterfall.

 

[Guest]

I believe that DreanScene will only be available to Ultimate edition users
only.

 

[Tom Porterfield]

I believe that DreanScene will only be available to Ultimate edition users
only.

That is correct. It is in a category of updates called Ultimate Extras
which are only available for Vista Ultimate users.

 

[D. Spencer Hines]

Are Language Packs ALSO "Ultimate Extras"?

DSH

SLoweCSL wrote:

That is correct. It is in a category of updates called Ultimate Extras
which are only available for Vista Ultimate users.

 

[Jeffrey S. Sparks]

No, but here's a link to help you find what you need...

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/35a1b021-d96c-49a5-8d8f-5e9d64ab5ecc1033.mspx


Jeff