Forget boring static wallpapers. Here's how to energize your Windows background with a stunning animated GIF or YouTube video ...

Lively Wallpaper needs to always run in the background, so if you close the program, the animated wallpaper is also removed along with it. Adding new wallpapers is a very straightforward process ...

DesktopHut lets you set animated live video wallpaper as your Windows 11/10 desktop background. It is backed by a gallery of thousands of live wallpapers.

With Windows 11, Microsoft has revamped the default backgrounds with new 'Captured Motion', 'Flow', 'Glow', 'Sunrise' collections while removing the Flowers and Windows 10 default backgrounds.

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