Windows 11 may not support animated wallpapers out of the box, but you can liven up your desktop thanks to a third-party app.

Wallpaper Engine vs Lively Wallpaper: Performance I was seeing 15 to 30% GPU utilization while running basic pre-installed live wallpapers from Wallpaper Engine on an RTX 4070 Super.

It’s called Lively Wallpaper by rockdanister, and it’s a free app that transforms your Windows desktop with live, dynamic backgrounds.

Using this registry fix, you can disable JPEG Wallpaper quality reduction feature and improve the quality of your desktop background wallpaper.

RainWallpaper is a free software that brings live, animated wallpapers to your computer. The software offers a good amount of customization features and allows users to get dynamic wallpapers easily.

Windows 10 by default compresses JPEG images you set as desktop wallpapers, but you can use this guide to show images in their full, glorious quality.

System Performance Keep in mind that running a web page as your wallpaper can consume system resources, especially if the webpage is resource-intensive.

Microsoft's most popular operating system, Windows 10, has a classic wallpaper the vast majority of Windows users would recognize, but how was it made?

It matches the dark theme of Windows 10 well, but it appears the wallpaper won’t be animated so the full effect (shown in Microsoft’s video) won’t be available on your desktop.

An early build of Windows 11 reveals unused variations of some of their well-known wallpapers from both Windows 10 and Windows 11.

New wallpapers and better window snapping come to latest Windows 11 preview builds Windows 11 is settling down a bit, so changes are mostly minor.