OK, I seem to have fixed this one again myself.
Somehow, in my power saving options, dreamscene was set to "power saving" I
changed to "high performance" and restarted the computer again, and
dreamscene played after logging in, as it's meant to, and as it always used
to.
Hope this helps the OP too.
Vin.
"Vin." wrote:
Quote:
> My machine has started doing this too.
>
> There's no codec problem.
>
> Dreamscene starts paused every time I start Vista.
> Right clicking the desktop and selecting "play dreamscene" plays it as
> normal, no problem.
>
> When Windows is restarted, it starts with Dreamscene paused again.
> I'm not sure when this happened. A few days ago I think.
>
> I've tried uninstalling dreamscene in the control panel, restarting the
> computer, and then reinstalling it, but it made no difference, it still
> starts up paused.
>
> Again, it plays fine if I right click and select Play Dreamscene.
> I've tried swapping to different files, including the standard Vista
> dreamscenes. I've tried switching to a standard background image, and then
> back to a dreamscene again. Nothing makes any difference, dreamscene starts
> paused, and remains paused until I manually start it from the desktop.
>
> Please advise,
> Vin.
>
> "Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:
> Quote:
> > Since this is a video file in dreamscene, I would first check the Media
> > Player's ability to run those. I would suspect a damaged codec, or player
> > file.
> >
> > --
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> > Mark L. Ferguson MS-MVP
> > https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Mark.Ferguson
> >
> > "Eduardo Valencia" <EduardoValencia@xxxxxx> wrote in
> > message news:C5E8CC2E-5F37-453B-8A49-336192335D18@xxxxxx Quote:
> > > Guys i have a problem
> > >
> > > Wverey time i start vista on my pc,the desktop appears with the dreamscene
> > > wallpaper stopped.Thoughts about how to solve this?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Eduardo Valencia
> >