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I have an animated .gif I created using Photoshop CS4, but I can't get animation on my desktop although I can set it as a background from the context menu by opening it in Internet Explorer.
How can I set an animated .gif as the desktop background on Windows 7?
blackjack
Posted 2010-06-16T05:38:24.963
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harrymc
Posted 2010-06-16T05:38:24.963
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– Ultralisk – 2013-11-14T12:29:01.9778
Windows 7 added a "multiple picture Slideshow" feature to the desktop background settings.
You are not able to make an animated GIF work normally, but you can break up the GIF into single frames and the slideshow feature will run it as if they were still together.
Remember to order the frame numbers with zeros when naming them (e.g. name001, name002, name003 instead of name1, name2, name3) to avoid the dreaded 1, 10, 11, 2, 20, 21, ordering.
Remember to uncheck the "random" box at the bottom and adjust the delay down to 10 seconds (the minimum). Obviously speed leaves much to be desired with the minimum delay between frames of 10 seconds, but at least you will get your moving background again.
Windows7usr
Posted 2010-06-16T05:38:24.963
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Not exactly and animated gif, but you could take a look at Enable DreamScene in Any Version of Vista or Windows 7
Pulse
Posted 2010-06-16T05:38:24.963
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thanx mate will convert my gif's to video nice one – blackjack – 2010-06-16T06:12:13.620
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Im using Windows XP and my gif started playing on my background when i put 'set as desktop background'.I had to go to 'Desktop' and put it on Stretch in stead of Tiles since it looked weird having a lot playing at once.
Joey
Posted 2010-06-16T05:38:24.963
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1Question is about Windows 7 – Andrea – 2014-04-09T07:13:12.050
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In order to get an animated gif to appear as your desktop, which is what I imagine you're trying to do, you'd have to upload it somewhere and use active desktop, which I think died around windows ME.
Ixobelle
Posted 2010-06-16T05:38:24.963
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currently using win 7 and is there any solution for it other than active desktop? – blackjack – 2010-06-16T05:51:01.173
2I can't imagine working with an animated background. – user1686 – 2010-06-16T15:12:14.930
I guess there is only option of dreamscene to put video as on our background... This will help us to move wallpapers as background on windows 7. And also there are few videos available which will exact look like animated images.
– None – 2012-05-21T02:19:29.8672Dearmscene takes A LOT of CPU because it has do continuously play the movie. – Ultralisk – 2012-08-29T09:47:28.060