DeskScapes v8.50 - Now Windows 10 Compatible

Animated wallpapers, special effects and video screensavers.

Published on October 20, 2015 By Tatiora In DeskScapes

Stardock is pleased to announce that DeskScapes, our program that allows you to animate and customize your desktop wallpapers, released an update today and is now fully compatible with Windows 10.

DeskScapes gives you the ability to animate and customize the wallpaper on your Windows desktop. You can choose one of the animated wallpapers already included with the program, or use your own WMV files to personalize your desktop. There are some additional features to DeskScapes as well:

Key Features:

Use your images and videos as the desktop wallpaper
Customize your wallpapers with animations
Apply over 40 special effects to your desktop
Apply any dream as your PC screensaver
Hundreds of Dreams on WinCustomize.com
And more!

Purchase DeskScapes or download a free trial here.

See the full changelog for v8.50 here.

Current Object Desktop owners and DeskScapes 8 owners can visit their My Downloads page and update to the latest version, 8.50, free of charge.

Comments (Page 1)

Wizard1956

on Oct 20, 2015

our program that allows you to animate and customize your desktop wallpapers, released today

First of all, DeskScapes has been around for years now.

now fully compatible with Windows 10

Secondly, it was allegedly already compatible with Windows10.

Has something NEW been added??? If not........

This falls into the category of a Non-announcement.

Neil Banfield

on Oct 20, 2015

Wizard1956

reply 1

our program that allows you to animate and customize your desktop wallpapers, released today

First of all, DeskScapes has been around for years now.

now fully compatible with Windows 10

Secondly, it was allegedly already compatible with Windows10.

Has something NEW been added??? If not........

This falls into the category of a Non-announcement.

It would appear the PR team have missed off the important information which is the release of Deskscapes 8.5!

This was out in beta but is now released in release form.

Wizard1956

on Oct 20, 2015

Neil Banfield

reply 2

the release of Deskscapes 8.5!
This was out in beta but is now released in release form.

Now the announcement makes sense. Thank you Neil.

bonedeaf667

on Oct 20, 2015

Great work, desktop icons are no longer locked with this release and dreams transition correctly.

Excalpius

on Oct 20, 2015

Any word on what was fixed in this update from the beta? Because none of the bugs I passed on have been addressed.

Reported here and numerous other places

https://www.wincustomize.com/article/471760/

Is this only a problem related to dynamic dreams like PhotoDream, because videos seem to work as expected (though with non-matching monitor ids)?

yhy001

on Oct 20, 2015

My product key cannot be registered, so the update could not be found in the "My Downloads" , please solve this problem, I use Windows10.

frederickosin

on Oct 21, 2015

Can't install deskcapes 8 try on windows 10, because it's not the 8.5 try version but the 8.21 try version. Please correct this error !

frederickosin

on Oct 21, 2015

Island Dog

on Oct 21, 2015

yhy001

reply 6

DeskScapes v8.50 - Now Windows 10 Compatible

Try here: https://www.stardock.com/accounts/register

The_Gear

on Oct 21, 2015

yhy001

reply 6

My product key cannot be registered, so the update could not be found in the "My Downloads" , please solve this problem, I use Windows10.

I'm seeing you have registered on the 3rd of this month. You should see DeskScapes in your My Downloads and clicking Download will obtain the latest version.

RedneckDude

on Oct 21, 2015

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

This here thread should be updated....

netsurfernetsurfer

on Oct 22, 2015

I also wanted to confirm what some of the users already said. The new release does not fix any of the bugs with windows 10 (at least not in my case). I use Home version of windows 10 and this newest DeskScapes version. Desktop freezes etc...

Neil Banfield

on Oct 22, 2015

netsurfernetsurfer

reply 13

Hi

I also wanted to confirm what some of the users already said. The new release does not fix any of the bugs with windows 10 (at least not in my case). I use Home version of windows 10 and this newest DeskScapes version. Desktop freezes etc...

Did you uninstall, reboot and reinstall the software?

We would need more specific information as that is not normal.

Be aware that if you have multiple computers using the same Microsoft account you will find the wallpaper gets synced which will disable DeskScapes. This is a feature of your OS.

netsurfernetsurfer

on Oct 22, 2015

Neil Banfield

reply 14

Quoting netsurfernetsurfer,

reply 13

Did you uninstall, reboot and reinstall the software?

We would need more specific information as that is not normal.

Be aware that if you have multiple computers using the same Microsoft account you will find the wallpaper gets synced which will disable DeskScapes. This is a feature of your OS.

So, in my opinion Deskscapes isn't ready for Windows 10 yet...

Ps. Sometimes when I look active processes in Task Manager, I see DSHOST.exe there multiple times and if I'm not totally mistaken, that process somehow is linked to Deskscapes

The_Gear

on Oct 22, 2015

netsurfernetsurfer

reply 14

Quoting Neil Banfield,

reply 14

Quoting netsurfernetsurfer,

reply 13

Yes I did uninstall, reboot and reinstall. As I said, my desktop freezes when I'm using full screen app and doesn't refresh afterwards and for example when using Deskscapes, Windows 10 Action Center will not close until I click Taskbar. When I'm using regular background images, Action Center will close no matter where I click on desktop. Also I noticed just now that when I try to change from moving background to still image background, my desktop once again freezes...

So, in my opinion Deskscapes isn't ready for Windows 10 yet...

Ps. Sometimes when I look active processes in Task Manager, I see DSHOST.exe there multiple times and if I'm not totally mistaken, that process somehow is linked to Deskscapes

Can you download and run the tool below:

http://sd.stardock.com/Support/supportToolTest/SDSupportTool.exe

Then attach the .zip that's created and send it in with a ticket to support:

https://esupport.stardock.com/index.php?/Tickets/Submit

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