ceez Posted January 14, 2005 Share Posted January 14, 2005 Zup peeps!I have a small animated gif that I would like to play on my desktop. I activated "Active desktop" but it would not animate.Any thoughts?thkzCEez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiMoNsAyS Posted January 14, 2005 Share Posted January 14, 2005 create a new .htm file and insert there the .gif file, then set the .htm file as background (active desktop enabled). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceez Posted January 14, 2005 Author Share Posted January 14, 2005 where do i create the html file? I pasted the image in word and saved it as an html file and it did not work. Do you have another way of doing it?maybe i am doing something wrong...WinxpPROgo to display propertiesdesktopcustomize desktop"web" tabclick newwhere it says to add a webpage or pic.... click browse and select my gif image (either as filename.gif OR filename.htm).click okmake sure the path to the gif file is checkedclick ok to closeok to close display propertiesnothing Is there an additional step to this?thkz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prathapml Posted January 14, 2005 Share Posted January 14, 2005 Is "play animations in web pages" enabled in your IE options? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceez Posted January 15, 2005 Author Share Posted January 15, 2005 Is "play animations in web pages" enabled in your IE options?well i'll be damned....that was it Unfortunately a small 600kb gif just threw my cpu process 100 percent! i guess active desktop does suck!thkz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiMoNsAyS Posted January 15, 2005 Share Posted January 15, 2005 i guess active desktop does suck!thkz.one of the ten rules of deskmoders ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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