How to get animated backgrounds for windows 7

Asked 9 years, 5 months ago. Active 4 years, 9 months ago. Viewed k times. Well, on Windows XP and on Windows 98 you can put an animated gif as an wallpaper easily. On Windows 7, when doing that the displayed wallpaper is only a frame of the animated gif. How to put an animated gif as wallpaper on Windows 7?

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Click the Start menu. Click Microsoft Store. Click Search. Type Desktop Live Wallpaper and press Enter. Click Get followed by Install. Download of WMV videos to use as backgrounds.

Open Desktop Live Wallpapers. Click Home. Click Browse folder. Click the folder your videos are saved to and click Ok. Click a video file to use as a live background.

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It has an icon that resembles a white shopping bag with the Windows logo on it. It's below "Explorer" in the Windows Start menu. You can download apps from the Microsoft Store to animate your desktop. If you are not logged in, click Log In and log in with the email address and password associated with your Microsoft account. If you do not see the Microsoft Store in the Windows Start menu, just type "Microsoft Store" to display it at the top.

It's next to an icon that resembles a magnifying glass in the upper-right corner. This searches for an app called Dynamic Wallpaper in the Microsoft Store. There are other animated wallpaper apps you can download for Windows, though most are paid software. A couple of programs include Deskscapes, and Wallpaper Engine. Click GET. This purchase the app from the Microsoft Store. Click Install.

This installs Desktop Live Wallpapers. Download videos to use as backgrounds. There are many websites you can download quick videos to use as backgrounds. Use google to search for videos to download. Short scenic videos make good animated backgrounds. Click the download icon below one of the videos you wish to download. Launch Desktop Live Wallpapers. It's in the upper-left corner of the "Desktop Live Wallpapers" app. Click Browse Folder. It's the purple button in the lower-right corner of the "Desktop Live Wallpapers" app.

This opens a file browser you can use to browse and open video files. Navigate to the folder with your video files and click Ok. Use the file browser to navigate to the folder that contains the video files you downloaded. Click the folder to select it. Then click Ok at the bottom of the Window. To remove a desktop wallpaper, Uninstall Desktop Live Wallpapers and set any photo as your desktop wallpaper.

Method 2. You can use any web browser on Mac. This is the website to download Nerdtool, which can be used to set animated desktop animations on your Mac, among other things. Click Download Now.