To This answer too is Yes. I also tried that, and second I found when Deamscapes failed one time to load and work correctly (meaning no visual movement form the wallpaper) that it ran at nomal Cpu usage. The only other option I had was to uninstall...
I tried to disable could not find looked in msconfig, but maybe not hard enough. So I would have to say yes.
I have recently downloaded and installed a trial version of Dreamscapes, and not had any problems or issues with it spiking my CPU until I attempted to try to update during my trail period version, after thinking that I could get a newer version of Deskscapes threw Impulse, I started experiencing some issues with the program locking up, while trying different backgrounds. Never the less what the heck, I just thought Deskscapes was is in need of an update, and so I was just about concide
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