Windows 10: Animated desktop

Hi again,,, I am interested in having an animated desktop,, I have seen a nice aquarium one which indecently was free,,
I downloaded the picture and it showed on the desktop but it did nothing.
I'm afraid I need help with this please,, could someone show me in a dummies guide way how I should go about it.
I thank you in advance for any help.
Len

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Animated GIFs on Desktop, not wallpaper

These articles detail third party apps you can use to get animated GIF or wallpapers:

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-get-animated...

Here is another in depth article:

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/animated-gif-deskt...

 

Animated GIFs on Desktop, not wallpaper

I thank you for your reply, and do appreciate your time, but neither of those allow for what I'm asking for.

DeskScapes 8 is full wallpaper animation, with many other nifty features, but no animated gifs on the desktop.

Rainmeter can achieve the effect of what I'm looking for with a combination of .png files and a ini setting file to cycle thru individual photos creating the illusion of a gif on the desktop, but again, no animated gifs on the desktop.

I'm looking for a way to get animated gifs on the desktop, not wallpaper/background.

 

Hello , perhaps post a link to where you got the download in your next post ,I don't think it something most of us would be using ,but one or more of us will have a look i'm sure

 

Never tried this in a long time and now with newer OS's. As i am sure you are trying third party apps, best known one is a paid version
http://www.stardock.com/products/deskscapes/



http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/set-liv...ounds-windows/

 

HMM that is interesting. I never used that but I do like screensavers. I think for a moving desktop I would follow the advice that jds63 posted.

 

Hi all,, sorry I am a little late but I have been asleep as it is our night time here.
Well here is the link I have been trying,::
http://www.elefun-desktops.com/show-...allpapers.html
I hope you have better luck than me, I thought about a bought one but then if I didn't like it it was a waste of money,
so I thought I would try a free one first. I might have to buy one in the end but I still don't know how its set up.
Thanks for all your help.
Len

 

Well that is not even compatible back to Windows Vista, i can see there will be issues then. Stardock product has a 30 day trial period and....
System Requirements

• Windows 10/8/7
• Microsoft DirectX™
• Minimum screen resolution: 1024 x 768