If you're new to PCs, you may have wondered at some point why your Windows desktop wallpaper is just so static. After all, since it's being displayed by the GPU, then surely it could be animated in ...

Hidden inside the developer version of an upcoming Windows 11 build (used mostly by testers), a user noticed a curious, new setting within the operating system: the option to set practically any video ...

Over the weekend, Twitter user @phantomofearth noticed that a classic Windows Vista Ultimate feature had been added back into the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview build— video wallpapers. Video ...

Microsoft on Wednesday made available a beta of the second "Ultimate Extra" for Windows Vista, which is available for download free of charge for those who purchased the Ultimate Edition of the new ...

Microsoft is taking a step back in time with Windows 11, introducing a feature not seen since the days of Vista. If you are sick of a static desktop background, you will be pleased to learn that you ...

Setting your desktop background to an animated video is one of those things that seems really cool at first thought, but the practical implementations—including an official version from Microsoft back ...

Today I installed "DreamScene" and kissed my CPU cycles goodbye. The official marketing moniker for Microsoft's seductively frivolous new "motion desktop" technology (one of those Ultimate Extras ...