Few days back, we shared you a method you use DreamScene in Windows 7 and non-supported Windows Vista editions. DreamScene or video wallpapers may not to be a familiar word for people using Windows XP. Actually, Its a software tool on Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate that lets you play movies and moving objects as desktop background. That means you can set a video wallpaper. DreamScene is a free Windows Vista Ultimate addon, and Microsoft doesn’t provide the software for Windows 7 or Windows XP. However, now Windows XP users could also use Dreamscene on their desktop with XPDream.
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I hope you know to create slide shows and themes in Windows 7 desktop . These slide shows  make use of a set of specified wallpapers from PC . There is a new feature in Windows 7 that could be used to specify RSS feeds for desktop slide shows . So you could use your Flickr or  other RSS streams to build a slide show theme in Windows 7 .

The default Windows 7 slide show section for techknowl theme . (If I am using a set of wallpapers as sideshow )
Eg:  techknowl.theme

[Slideshow]

Interval=1800000

Shuffle=1ImagesRootPath=c:techknowlwallpaper

Item0Path=c:techknowlwallpaperocean.jpg

Item1Path=c:techknowlwallpapermountain.jpg

Item2Path=c:techknowlwallpaperriver.jpg

If you replace it with an RSS feeds .

[Slideshow]

Interval=10000

Shuffle=1

RssFeed=http://www.techknowl.com/atom.xml

Check out thispage to know more about theme structure in Windows 7.
You can read this article create windows 7 themes . After creating a .theme file , open it using a text file and change the above parameters .

After RSS feed theme installation , it would take certain time to load all the files from internet . The current build of Windows 7 has some problems related with the feed refresh time and RSS feed option in personalization control panel .This would get fixed in upcoming releases .

Istartedsomething.com has created few  RSS feed slide show themes in Windows 7 using high quality Flickr photo feeds .

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Enjoy RSS feed slide show themes in Windows 7 .

DreamScene is a feature introduced in Windows Vista. With DreamScene, users can set their favorite videos as their Windows desktop background wallpaper. DreamScene supports .MPG and .WMV ( Windows Media Video) videos of any length. The basic requirement for using DreamScene in Windows is to get a computer with decent hardware and Windows Vista Ultimate Operating system. Microsoft removed DreamScene in Windows 7.  However, it is possible to use DreamScene in Windows 7 and non-supported Windows Vista versions using DreamScene.exe application.

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