How do I set an animated wallpaper on Windows 7?

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?

PS: If the solution is a 3rd-party software, I do prefer a free solution :)

Solution 1:

You can use this to allow use of wmv and mpg as a background in 7. http://windows7themes.net/how-to-use-dreamscene-in-windows-7.html

Solution 2:

You don’t. Active Desktop was removed in Vista.

Solution 3:

Your only option in Windows 7 is to use a third party application, such as Stardock's Deskscapes to provide that functionality. I use Deskscapes on my home machine and I love it (most of the time). It does occasionally cause my desktop screen to stop responding after exiting a full screen game, but this is rare. And I can get it to work just by restarting Explorer from the Task Manager.

Solution 4:

Download dreamsceneseven from http://www.dreamsceneseven.com/ and then download wallpapers what you like here http://www.dreamsceneseven.com/animatedwallpapers.htm. Set you background as instruction.