I have a couple of cute animated GIFs stored in my computer which I want to use as background. Well, I can set these images as background on my Windows 8 powered laptop but it just shows up as a still image. It does not move or animate. I want to see an animated background on my laptop and not just on my screen saver. Any ideas on how to make this work? Also I want a free solution to this and not a paid one... Thanks in advance.
The default version of Windows does not have any in-built support for animated backgrounds. I would recommend downloading and installing Deskscapes. Log In
I was suuuper excited with the software that you suggested. I quickly clicked the link and I saw all of its features. It excited me even more! Then I clicked on the download link. Then I saw that it was a paid software and not a freeware. I was discouraged immediately. Haha! But I'll probably give this software a chance once I have some funds in my PayPal account.
Animated background are of great use all over the computer. I think the best of them are available as apps and most of them are available for download. You should try checking the windows 8 app download that are quite popular.
TryLog In, they use video files as backgrounds, but it's resource intensive, so watch out how you use it, it doesn't work properly on old devices. I tried it 5 mins ago on an old laptop and the results varied from laggy to fluid, depending on the resolution of the backgrounds.
I don't think you can have animated GIF background running on Windows 8 by default. You have to install third party softwares to do just that. Dreamscene is pretty cool you should try it out.
