Animating the Wallpaper

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  • @FlyTechVideos
    @FlyTechVideos  ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Join the channel's discord server "The Flying Tech" - flies.sh/discord

  • @windestruct
    @windestruct ปีที่แล้ว +378

    Back to the Windows 98 days when you could set a gif as a wallpaper with no problems

    • @benjaluth07
      @benjaluth07 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Yeah😢

    • @jedsiecz
      @jedsiecz ปีที่แล้ว +48

      and html files because internet explorer as wallpaper

    • @windestruct
      @windestruct ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@jedsiecz That too.

    • @steve_1507
      @steve_1507 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That was really cool

    • @steve_1507
      @steve_1507 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I don't get why they removed it. Maybe restrict it to local HTML sites for security

  • @Foxy_AR
    @Foxy_AR ปีที่แล้ว +132

    1:36 the most stable that vista has ever been

  • @granitium
    @granitium ปีที่แล้ว +22

    0:28 poor little recycling bin 😪

    • @ivancomp_inside
      @ivancomp_inside ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Большая Корзинуля

    • @granitium
      @granitium ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ivancomp_inside ладно.

  • @StiekemeHenk
    @StiekemeHenk ปีที่แล้ว +34

    My brother once trolled me back in 2012? Windows 7, Rick roll wallpaper. It even played the audio and I have no clue how he did it.
    I did a full C: drive search for "rick" and deleted a ton of files to remove it.

    • @yoitsluna2001
      @yoitsluna2001 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Did you delete system32 too?

    • @waduruwaddi
      @waduruwaddi ปีที่แล้ว +1

      its an joke virus

    • @StiekemeHenk
      @StiekemeHenk ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@waduruwaddi i am aware.

    • @aisultan3329
      @aisultan3329 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@yoitsluna2001you can't you have to get permission from "trustedintaller"

  • @cooolgamer-vanced
    @cooolgamer-vanced ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The fly is back! And with interesting stuff as always, I didn't tried to use animated wallpapers so I didn't knew they was removed because I knew you could do that on windows 98

  • @Melonplaygroundkid-BA2024
    @Melonplaygroundkid-BA2024 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    When the world needed him,he came back!

  • @lleonix
    @lleonix ปีที่แล้ว +18

    The desktop being not full in your RentlessWalpaper2 program is cause of the WindowState.Maximize property, which doesn't account for the non-borderly window. You should instead use a normal window with the dimensions the same as the screen. btw love your work i didn't know that this existed in the first place and I think it should be more popular.

  • @plashplash-fg6hd
    @plashplash-fg6hd ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Hey, Flytech, I’m glad you’re back with these amazing videos!

  • @Ash777gg
    @Ash777gg ปีที่แล้ว +46

    One month ago, I was too working on a similar project. In my experience, You can use winapi to change the wallpaper repeatedly, but its smoothness depends on system power. I was able to play a low quality choppy video using Winapi. But it can often cause explorer to crash/freeze the wallpaper frames.
    It could work better if you use it outside the vm.

  • @AlkoholOgerLeonElektronik67
    @AlkoholOgerLeonElektronik67 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    No GPU accelerated solution? CPU only sounds kinda terrible from a performance standpoint, when wanting to keep the system as responsive as possible

  • @FavoritoHJS
    @FavoritoHJS ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Here's a stupid idea: Back in windows 98, M$ had the ""good"" idea of creating active desktop -- basically an internet exploder window as a wallpaper.
    I wonder if that still exists in Windows 11...
    PS: I wonder if CPU usage can be lowered by using a hardware-accelerated codec -- usually h264 works but on really old hardware you might need MPEG-2. You'll need to try outside a VM, though.

    • @supercellex4D
      @supercellex4D ปีที่แล้ว +4

      no, it won't. XP axed it, maybe it never got added to Windows NT

    • @Kiki79250CoC
      @Kiki79250CoC ปีที่แล้ว

      @@supercellex4D In fact Active Desktop can be installed on NT4 with the "Desktop Update" and was present by default on 2000 and XP, but it got removed with Vista.

    • @I.____.....__...__
      @I.____.....__...__ ปีที่แล้ว

      It wasn't "good", it was good, at least at the time. We'd create desktop webpages with things like weather "widgets" and stuff. It was very cutting-edge and progressive. Of course, as the Internet grew and more people started using it, it became more dangerous and eventually had to be pulled. 😕

    • @mrdiamond64
      @mrdiamond64 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@supercellex4D it exists in XP. I remember while using my Windows XP PC, the background would sometimes turn white and say something about how active desktop failed to load.

  • @drdonk_auf_die_1_xd
    @drdonk_auf_die_1_xd ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You don't know how hard i screamed YEEEEES!! when you recommended lively instead of Wallpaper Engine or BionicX

  • @jonny11bonk
    @jonny11bonk ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm actually using Lively Wallpaper for a few months now an I love it! Nothing closed source or paid like the wallpaper engine.

  • @clearcodee_
    @clearcodee_ ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I use Lively Wallpaper as well. Cool thing is you can extend the background if you have more than 1 monitor.

  • @trunkit8749
    @trunkit8749 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    How exactly does WallpaperEngine do the animation without lagging? I’d love to see a video on that!

  • @steve_1507
    @steve_1507 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Maybe if we used the GPU for decoding, it would run faster?

    • @sgirix65
      @sgirix65 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's actually pretty fast on real PCs, works smoothly on a 5th gen Intel laptop without any discrete GPU.

    • @steve_1507
      @steve_1507 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sgirix65 too bad it was "removed" in newer versions, I think there might still be remnants of Dreamscene in windows 11

    • @sgirix65
      @sgirix65 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@steve_1507 sorry, I didn't mention that I meant the Lively Wallpaper.

  • @backjump
    @backjump ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Welcome back FlyTech ^^

  • @AlexRaylight
    @AlexRaylight ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm curious what the resource usage would be for Wallpaper Engine, on the same system and with an equivalent wallpaper.
    (On my system, Wallpaper Engine uses almost 0% CPU and around 14% GPU.)

  • @Cookie_360
    @Cookie_360 ปีที่แล้ว

    4:53 Synced with Music at the background 😂😂😂
    Man, i love you and really missed you ❤😂

  • @ggorg0
    @ggorg0 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Whoa you're alive!

  • @yeasirzaman412
    @yeasirzaman412 หลายเดือนก่อน

    6:13" if u want this abomination...,"quote of the year

  • @Shea7TDM
    @Shea7TDM ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the long awaited video

  • @Elytra17
    @Elytra17 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bro never disappoints us with the music

  • @idk_21136
    @idk_21136 ปีที่แล้ว

    After all these years, hes back

  • @Yarpopcat08
    @Yarpopcat08 ปีที่แล้ว

    Didn't know about the Windows Vista&7 official live wallpaper. I guess you can migrate Win7 files to Win 11, and maybe mod something to work. Actually I'll go and to that right now. Thank you for giving me something to do! Nice video!

    • @alexandermcclure6185
      @alexandermcclure6185 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Please we must know if it functioned! We are dying to know!!! (no wait, that's just me dying in general :[ )

  • @dominiksalata4234
    @dominiksalata4234 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for recommending Lively Wallpaper.

  • @white_mage
    @white_mage ปีที่แล้ว

    using a video with slower framerate and lower bitrate might lower cpu usage but im lazy to test right now. hopefully i'll eventually bring back my animated w7 wallpapers

  • @妃廬詩裳乃汰
    @妃廬詩裳乃汰 ปีที่แล้ว

    When my pc broke, I installed the wrong iso file from the official Microsoft page that shutdown every 20-30 minutes or so(because it's license had expired). It took me so long to realise it and I almost just bring it to repair. I have a question: Can we broke the license or at lease break the shutdown system to continusing using the pc?

  • @اميونس-ن3ف
    @اميونس-ن3ف ปีที่แล้ว

    After installing a windows xp my dual boot is not showing
    I have a win 8 lite in a disk and win 10 lite in another diskbut after installing win xp in another another disk my dual boot is gone
    But i have a win 7 cd and i run cmd prompt and i use bootrec commands
    And the dual boot showing now but without win xp
    Pls how to dual boot win xp and this 2 windows
    Pls answer i wan this winxp for my potato pc 10 fps minecraft

  • @pseudoforceyt
    @pseudoforceyt ปีที่แล้ว

    The single most useful fly in the world has been resurrected!!

  • @supramix5124
    @supramix5124 ปีที่แล้ว

    You're back finally! Good video too

  • @lior_haddad
    @lior_haddad ปีที่แล้ว +4

    papa john's dude

  • @Windows-wj9jr
    @Windows-wj9jr ปีที่แล้ว +1

    bro you are back
    i was missing you very much.
    edit:ow btw i like your fly live wallpaper can i get that please ?

    • @FlyTechVideos
      @FlyTechVideos  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sure bro here you go: flies.sh/5mdGYy

  • @lychkinn
    @lychkinn ปีที่แล้ว

    Good to see you post again!

  • @blithegd8
    @blithegd8 ปีที่แล้ว

    :OOOO
    the legend is back!!!!
    welcome back!

  • @thepikachugamer
    @thepikachugamer ปีที่แล้ว +1

    DREAMSCENE MY LOVE. Unfortunately Windows 7 is out of support and a bunch of stuff dont work on it so yeah i dropped it

  • @duplicake4054
    @duplicake4054 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good to see you back!

  • @NoahDomingues
    @NoahDomingues ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Cheers for the new video, keep it up! =)

  • @C00LSH4RK
    @C00LSH4RK ปีที่แล้ว +1

    FLY TECH FINALLY MADE A VIDEO!

  • @penguincute3564
    @penguincute3564 ปีที่แล้ว

    Couldn’t you set a moving image as the background?

  • @alwaystrue
    @alwaystrue 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Before I saw section 7, I was about to go into the comments suggesting lively wallpaper XD

  • @BuddyPlot
    @BuddyPlot ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes, I remember the easter eggs video!

  • @starleaf-luna
    @starleaf-luna 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    weren't Ultimate Extras available for free from Windows Update?

  • @gruetzig
    @gruetzig ปีที่แล้ว +1

    how does wallpaper engine do it is my question now

  • @blacktoad34
    @blacktoad34 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hes back from his slumber after 5 months

  • @emilyofjane
    @emilyofjane ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Butterflies on Desktop walked so Flies on Desktop could run

  • @lumieas
    @lumieas ปีที่แล้ว

    the legend's back yall

  • @SirAU
    @SirAU ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Getting a FlyTech video after 5 months:

  • @weizkule
    @weizkule ปีที่แล้ว

    fun fact btw GIFs are animated if u set them as wallpapers on XP and under

  • @redgray408isapest
    @redgray408isapest ปีที่แล้ว

    1:30
    bouncing thing: please pretend that the the wallpaper is animated.
    me: *ignores the bouncing thing*

  • @popd1603
    @popd1603 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What Happens if you set all the registry Keys to 0 ?

  • @astric32dll
    @astric32dll ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You should make a video on how there can be 2 desktop.ini files on the desktop at the same time and Windows doesn't confuse them.

  • @coolchannelyt
    @coolchannelyt ปีที่แล้ว +1

    HE'S BACK

  • @ElijahGames69
    @ElijahGames69 ปีที่แล้ว

    also what about razor axon?

  • @arrax_s
    @arrax_s ปีที่แล้ว

    YOU RETURNED!

  • @phonl1
    @phonl1 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why are you using the outdated version of Windows 11?(judging by the old search icon and the old task manager)

  • @Korn-176
    @Korn-176 ปีที่แล้ว

    YOU'RE BACK!!!

  • @blurie_official
    @blurie_official ปีที่แล้ว

    What happens if you set DWORDs to Byte?

  • @itsmicxgaming
    @itsmicxgaming ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm not sure how Microsoft perfected DreamScene back in the day, I have the Ultimate Extras and I'm using it with 6 other windows open at once and no lag on my 12 year old laptop!

    • @GunnerSiIva
      @GunnerSiIva ปีที่แล้ว

      The lag présent was probably from the VM

    • @itsmicxgaming
      @itsmicxgaming ปีที่แล้ว

      @@GunnerSiIva true, especially if there wasn't vmware tools on or a problem with hardware acceleration in the VM

  • @I.____.....__...__
    @I.____.....__...__ ปีที่แล้ว

    Kid: _Mom, can we get DreamScene?_
    Mom: _We have Active Desktop at home._
    - 3:05 Yes, I know about VLC's wallpaper mode. I'm reminded of it every time I accidentally press W while watching stuff. 😒 (Yes, I have wallpaper mode disabled in the VLC settings, but that doesn't stop it. Bug? 🤷)
    - 3:55 Turn wallpaper mode off in the settings, restarting VLC, then pressing W to activate wallpaper mode; that doesn't play it fullscreen, it only replaces the desktop, and the taskbar and start menu are unaffected (but you still can't see desktop icons).
    - 4:18 Back in 1995, I got a copy of a program that would allow you to use an animated desktop/wallpaper in Windows 3.x. I have no idea what it was called; I tried searching for it over the years but always came up empty. 😕
    The closest I could find was a program called ScreenPaper which lets you use screensavers as the desktop/wallpaper, and still works (at least up to Windows 7), but it's from the Windows 9x days, so it's not that original Win3 one. 🤔
    - 5:08 This is because when you set the wallpaper, Windows transcodes it to a BMP file. Try pre-converting the images so that it can just set them directly and skip that extra processing. (Also, iirc, setting the wallpaper broadcasts WM_SETTINGCHANGE to all windows, which is going to eat up CPU cycles.)

  • @BlueSheep777
    @BlueSheep777 ปีที่แล้ว

    fly is back!

  • @blurie_official
    @blurie_official ปีที่แล้ว

    The sequence is 1000/5 equal how many wallpaper changes in 1 second. Set to 20 it will lag all your vm

  • @xorxpert
    @xorxpert ปีที่แล้ว

    Before any tools existed, I hacked ShellView of explorer to render stuff behind icons.

  • @kevinwong_2016
    @kevinwong_2016 ปีที่แล้ว

    Finally uploaded ❤️

  • @candycaneannihalator2708
    @candycaneannihalator2708 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    ironic the only version that officially has it doesnt work

  • @jasonbond4140
    @jasonbond4140 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fun fact: Livly Wallpaper is also in the official Microsoft store?

  • @anamoyeee
    @anamoyeee ปีที่แล้ว +5

    how can something as simple as changing the wallpaper take so much of cpu processing power?

  • @DanTDMJace
    @DanTDMJace ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I would use a Timer for your wallpaper cycler. The lag is mostly because you used Sleep

    • @Ivan-fy3pr
      @Ivan-fy3pr ปีที่แล้ว

      Would sleep cause explorer to crash, though?

    • @DanTDMJace
      @DanTDMJace ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Ivan-fy3prMaybe. Sleep hogs system resources like it's no one's buisness.

  • @jasonbond4140
    @jasonbond4140 ปีที่แล้ว

    A fun video to do with lively wallpapers is Error ( Yes that's the name ).

  • @alexowk95
    @alexowk95 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Now i can get rid of ny anime wallpaper for this

  • @wardrich
    @wardrich ปีที่แล้ว

    This seemed cool until I realized that I pretty much never actually see my dekstop since I've always got stuff running

  • @tauon_
    @tauon_ ปีที่แล้ว

    why was mpv using so much cpu? lol

  • @Humaneriiing
    @Humaneriiing ปีที่แล้ว

    Does that work in Python even?

  • @giakhangnguyen1898
    @giakhangnguyen1898 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey Fly can you make a video of customize Windows using Regedit (Change Background,colors,etc,....)

  • @YoFGFelix1000
    @YoFGFelix1000 ปีที่แล้ว

    on my windows 10 i used lively wallpaper compatible for windows 11/10

  • @eepyeri
    @eepyeri ปีที่แล้ว

    1:15 DreamScene, not Dreamscape

    • @FlyTechVideos
      @FlyTechVideos  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh right, missed that, thanks

  • @LivieRBicyclistRaincatcher
    @LivieRBicyclistRaincatcher ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Could you find a way to make Dreamscene run on Windows 10/11?

    • @Emayeah
      @Emayeah ปีที่แล้ว +3

      that would be a hard task, implementing a feature that was on previous versions of windows on a new one. if just needing to copy some files to windows 10 from windows 7 / vista (edit: *works) it would probably result in a buggy mess due to windows changing a lot in the past decade

    • @defautluser0
      @defautluser0 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Emayeah yes, "changing". Fucking updates being layered above each other is changing?

    • @Emayeah
      @Emayeah ปีที่แล้ว

      @@defautluser0 i mean his idea can create a buggy mess... and windows 11 released 2 years ago, windows 10 released 8 years ago, i think at least something changed

  • @TBDev10
    @TBDev10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey FlyTech, you are taking too long to make videos every months dude💀but keep up the good work!

    • @FlyTechVideos
      @FlyTechVideos  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Brooooooooooo I'm doing my best, already editing my next video

  • @UltimatePerfection
    @UltimatePerfection ปีที่แล้ว

    VLC background works perfectly on Linux though.

  • @DMARrecords
    @DMARrecords ปีที่แล้ว

    Blue Firefox?? How?

  • @JustPyroYT
    @JustPyroYT ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cool Video! ❤ :D

  • @ROCKERNAN89
    @ROCKERNAN89 ปีที่แล้ว

    You should make the background the DVD screensaver in another video

  • @iamdarkyoshi
    @iamdarkyoshi ปีที่แล้ว

    Silly Fly, just set a gif as the wallpaper in XP :)

  • @jkuser0official
    @jkuser0official ปีที่แล้ว

    wallpaper engine has left the chat

  • @null234
    @null234 ปีที่แล้ว

    lol i made a program like a year ago or so that attaches to the wallpaper of windows 10 playing a gif :D

  • @ErrorGeometryDash
    @ErrorGeometryDash ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice

  • @polandball3
    @polandball3 ปีที่แล้ว

    at start of 1 they just delete recycle bin

  • @benjaluth07
    @benjaluth07 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Dude thought you were dead😂😅

  • @ArturoDrives
    @ArturoDrives ปีที่แล้ว

    Could you please make a video supporting enderman and his situation with youtube?

  • @Lucy_LostWord
    @Lucy_LostWord ปีที่แล้ว

    But hey flies

  • @Lolsos12e22GD
    @Lolsos12e22GD 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    2:28 green screen womp womp

  • @atsizbalik
    @atsizbalik ปีที่แล้ว

    bro came back from the milk store

  • @FredandGeorgecats
    @FredandGeorgecats ปีที่แล้ว

    hey look I am here

  • @Diamondsigmaspaceb
    @Diamondsigmaspaceb 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I use lively wallpaper

  • @Fafua1990Furry
    @Fafua1990Furry ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love win 7 UwU

  • @alexstuf3
    @alexstuf3 ปีที่แล้ว

    🔥🔥

  • @_auser_
    @_auser_ ปีที่แล้ว

    Instead of MP4, why not just use a gif

  • @Toomnyrabbo
    @Toomnyrabbo ปีที่แล้ว

    8 - The Easy Way: Use Wallpaper Engine from steam

  • @Cart1416
    @Cart1416 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    hi fly