Well I think i just answered my own question, by making windows mail
fullscreen and observing the cpu usage it seems that it does get paused when
a window is made full screen, Im guessing therefore that a full screen game
would also pause it.
Thanks for the reply Andre


"Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <andred25@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Thats hard to tell, but I notice when I log out and log back in, it seems
> to be paused then resumed. It Auto starts every time I log into Vista too.
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> "VistaGuy" <nope@none.com> wrote in message
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>>I have noticed that dreamscene uses a bit of CPU, does it get paused
>>automatically when a full screen application or game is run ?
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>> Thanks
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