How to set animated GIF as background?

[someone2639]

Well, I had a Five Nights at Freddy's animated GIF that I wanted to set as my background (to scare people). But it's just static. I remember this worked on Windows XP. Is there a workaround?

 

[Legoboyii]

It's impossible, in fact. Just to view gifs yould have to either download an app like Gif Viewer to view it as an animation or open it with a browser.

 

[someone2639]

It's impossible, in fact. Just to view gifs yould have to either download an app like Gif Viewer to view it as an animation or open it with a browser.

I mean Windows 8, not WP.

 

[daveey]

There's some way of doing it using VLC Media Player, I'm sure you'll find some info if you Google it.

 

[someone2639]

There's some way of doing it using VLC Media Player, I'm sure you'll find some info if you Google it.

The articles I found apply to W7. Does this work on Modern VLC?

 

[WillHolt]

When Microsoft flicks the switch and - in case you're using a carrier variant - carriers do so too.70-246 vce

 

[someone2639]

It's still astounding why Windows 7 and XP had the feature, and not Windows 8.1!