Animating the Wallpaper

Let's reach 2000 likes 💜 Wallpapers are usually static. Did you know Windows used to support animated wallpapers? And did you know that with enough trickery, you can still use them today? We will dig into the historical precedent, then try to put together some homemade variants, after which we will use an open-source solution.

0:00 - Intro
0:25 - #1 - Windows DreamScene
1:39 - #2 - Windows DreamScene, but in Windows 7
2:51 - #3 - Windows DreamScene, but in Windows 11
3:03 - #4 - The VLC background
4:26 - #5 - The Wallpaper Cycler
6:24 - #6 - Hide behind the wall
7:54 - #7 - A lively wallpaper
8:52 - Outro

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[windestruct]

Back to the Windows 98 days when you could set a gif as a wallpaper with no problems

[Foxy_AR]

1:36 the most stable that vista has ever been

[lleonix]

The desktop being not full in your RentlessWalpaper2 program is cause of the WindowState.Maximize property, which doesn't account for the non-borderly window. You should instead use a normal window with the dimensions the same as the screen. btw love your work i didn't know that this existed in the first place and I think it should be more popular.

[cooolgamer-vanced]

The fly is back! And with interesting stuff as always, I didn't tried to use animated wallpapers so I didn't knew they was removed because I knew you could do that on windows 98

[plashplash-fghd]

Hey, Flytech, I’m glad you’re back with these amazing videos!

[StiekemeHenk]

My brother once trolled me back in 2012? Windows 7, Rick roll wallpaper. It even played the audio and I have no clue how he did it.
I did a full C: drive search for "rick" and deleted a ton of files to remove it.

[OfficialBasicer]

When the world needed him, he came back!

[Cookie_]

4:53 Synced with Music at the background 😂😂😂

Man, i love you and really missed you ❤😂

[Ashgg]

One month ago, I was too working on a similar project. In my experience, You can use winapi to change the wallpaper repeatedly, but its smoothness depends on system power. I was able to play a low quality choppy video using Winapi. But it can often cause explorer to crash/freeze the wallpaper frames.
It could work better if you use it outside the vm.

[AlkoholOgerLeonElektronik]

No GPU accelerated solution? CPU only sounds kinda terrible from a performance standpoint, when wanting to keep the system as responsive as possible

[clearcodee_]

I use Lively Wallpaper as well. Cool thing is you can extend the background if you have more than 1 monitor.

[jonnybonk]

I'm actually using Lively Wallpaper for a few months now an I love it! Nothing closed source or paid like the wallpaper engine.

[yeasirzaman]

6:13" if u want this abomination..., "quote of the year

[drdonk_auf_die__xd]

You don't know how hard i screamed when you recommended lively instead of Wallpaper Engine or BionicX

[FavoritoHJS]

Here's a stupid idea: Back in windows 98, M$ had the ""good"" idea of creating active desktop -- basically an internet exploder window as a wallpaper.
I wonder if that still exists in Windows 11...
PS: I wonder if CPU usage can be lowered by using a hardware-accelerated codec -- usually h264 works but on really old hardware you might need MPEG-2. You'll need to try outside a VM, though.

[steve_]

Maybe if we used the GPU for decoding, it would run faster?

[trunkit]

How exactly does WallpaperEngine do the animation without lagging? I’d love to see a video on that!

[supramix]

You're back finally! Good video too

[AlexRaylight]

I'm curious what the resource usage would be for Wallpaper Engine, on the same system and with an equivalent wallpaper.
(On my system, Wallpaper Engine uses almost 0% CPU and around 14% GPU.)

[Windows-wjjr]

bro you are back
i was missing you very much.
edit:ow btw i like your fly live wallpaper can i get that please ?