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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?
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harrymcharrymc
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.
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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.
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slhck
Not exactly and animated gif, but you could take a look at Enable DreamScene in Any Version of Vista or Windows 7
PulsePulseIm 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.
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.
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