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O.P. Can you make your desktop picture have animation?
Can you make your desktop picture have animation??

If not is there a clean and free program that well enable me to have animation in the desktop?? Please tell me :-) Thanks

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10-31-2004 07:17 AM
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RE: Can you make your desktop picture have animation?
im not sure but i think you can do that by enabling "active desktop"
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10-31-2004 07:28 AM
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RE: Can you make your desktop picture have animation?
Yea you sure can, just set your background to a .gif picture and watch it play (Winodws should set up every thing once you pick a gif picture) :D but let me say this, it gets quite annoing after seeing one picture loop it's self continuely. Your best bet would be to make it a picture with not alot of movement in it (Y)

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10-31-2004 08:13 AM
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RE: Can you make your desktop picture have animation?
Last Christmas I had an animated gif of Santa riding across my screen on a sleigh....
10-31-2004 04:59 PM
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RE: Can you make your desktop picture have animation?
I once did this, and it sucked. It slows your computer down enormously! I mean, just a stupid background already slows your computer down, but it's nice. But these animated pictures don't have any added use, get annoying, and slow down too much.
11-02-2004 08:33 PM
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RE: Can you make your desktop picture have animation?
Animated pictures work for about 5 minutes, after that they stick in the first frame until you reset the background or whatever. Its not a good idea, it will get annoying, why not just have animated cursors or something?
11-02-2004 08:37 PM
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RE: Can you make your desktop picture have animation?
Its quite easy to do, just set your background as an animated image, but i agree with everyone else it really slows your computer down and gets annoying.
11-03-2004 11:33 AM
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