While you will find plethora of static wallpaper, setting a video wallpaper adds a different level of aesthetic and modernization to your desktop. In this guide, we will show you how you can set video wallpaper on Windows 11.
Many people have a knack for properly setting up their desktop home screens. And by a proper setup, we don’t mean simply arranging the icons, but changing the icons, having a wallpaper based on their mood, or setting up complimenting the theme on their PCs. Having a static wallpaper is not that big of a deal, and now that has become quite boring. If you want to elevate your homescreen experience, then you should check out this tutorial, as we are going to explain to you how you can set video wallpaper on Windows 11. Video wallpapers will run like a normal video, but instead of them being running on top of your homescreen, they will run in the background.
We will be making use of You can set your vacation video as your Windows 11 wallpaper when you are tirelessly working on a project to give your mind a refresh or set a live stream of your gaming session as your wallpaper to boast about your achievement to your friends straight from your homescreen. Whatever the use case may be, video wallpapers are great for making your desktop homescreen setup more interesting. Let’s take a look at how you can do it.
Table of ContentsWhat is Lively Wallpaper?
Microsoft doesn’t officially let you set a video wallpaper for your desktop. However, thanks to the availability of multiple third-party apps, you can accomplish that task without scratching your head. To set video wallpaper on Windows 11, we will be making use of a third-party app called Lively Wallpaper.
Lively Wallpaper is an open-source application available on the Microsoft Store that performs one simple task, i.e., allows the user to set videos, webpages, or GIFs as desktop wallpapers and screensavers. The good thing about this app is that it offers a decent selection of many live wallpapers to choose from and is set as video wallpaper on Windows 11. If you are not into the offered selection of wallpapers, then you can always add custom ones to the library.
AI is everywhere these days, and this app also offers an AI feature that helps you convert a static image into a dynamic wallpaper.
