![]() ![]() For the latter versions, there is a program by Stardock called DeskScapes that provides a selection of animated wallpapers, and even allows you to create your own from gifs, videos, or other animations. Regardless of the version of Windows you are running, you’re going to need a third-party program no OS offers animated wallpaper functionality. I was going to talk about the way I do it on Windows 10, but I suppose I should also talk about Windows 7 and 8. ![]() Of course, that early in the computer revolution, none of us realized how truly gaudy and resource-intensive all that nonsense was.īut a tasteful, animated wallpaper can make for an elegant display. Back in the early 1990s there was an add-on program for Windows 3.1 called Icon Hear-It that added animated cursors, animated icons, and additional sounds to the GUI. Incidentally, the idea of animating desktop elements has been around forever. But perfectly reasonable caveats don’t interest us, we know the risks, we want animated wallpapers, and now we can have them. After all, if Android phones can have them, why not the big guys? There are valid, pragmatic reasons they’re distracting, they drain system resources, and they can be hell on a laptop battery or other device that isn’t plugged in. I’ve always wondered why we don’t have animated wallpapers for desktop machines.
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