video wallpapers

Title: Windows 11’s Desktop Gets Modernized: WebP Wallpapers Arrive, Video Backgrounds Loom on the Horizon By: [WindowsForum] Staff Reporter Date: January 28, 2026 Lead Microsoft has quietly taken another step toward modernizing Windows 11’s personalization stack. In mid‑January 2026 the...

Windows 11 users can now choose between waiting for a first‑party implementation or using mature third‑party tools to bring moving, video, and interactive wallpapers to life — and each path carries clear trade‑offs for performance, battery, security, and manageability. Recent tests in Windows...

Microsoft’s surprisingly small but meaningful reversal — bringing a familiar Windows 10-style feature back into Windows 11 — is quietly rolling out to Insiders and it matters more than its nostalgia alone suggests. What began as a community leak has become a verified Insider experiment: Windows...

Microsoft has quietly started testing a native “video wallpaper” feature in Windows 11 Insider preview builds — a modern revival of Vista’s DreamScene that lets you set common video files (MP4, MKV, MOV and others) as looping desktop backgrounds directly from Settings or File Explorer...

Microsoft has quietly reintroduced the ability to run video files as desktop backgrounds in Windows 11 Insider builds, a modern reboot of the long‑forgotten Vista era “DreamScene” and a sign that native animated wallpaper support may soon be a standard personalization option for millions of...

Microsoft has quietly restored one of Windows’ most nostalgic personalization features: native video wallpapers — the spiritual successor to DreamScene — now appearing in Windows 11 Insider preview builds and accessible through the familiar Settings > Personalization > Background workflow when...

Microsoft has quietly resurrected a long-requested personalization capability in Windows 11: native support for video wallpapers that lets ordinary video files act as looping desktop backgrounds—an elegant, modern echo of Vista’s DreamScene now visible in Windows Insider preview builds, but...

Microsoft is quietly testing native video wallpapers inside Windows 11 Insider Preview builds, restoring a DreamScene‑style capability that lets ordinary video files act as looping desktop backgrounds and eliminating the immediate need for third‑party tools for basic animated wallpapers...

Microsoft is quietly resurrecting DreamScene-style video wallpapers in Windows 11 — a built-in way to set ordinary video files as looping desktop backgrounds that has begun appearing inside recent Insider preview builds and is already stirring questions about performance, battery life...

Microsoft has quietly restored one of the most nostalgic Windows features — the ability to use videos as desktop wallpapers — by adding native video wallpaper support to recent Windows 11 Insider Preview builds, giving users a built-in alternative to third-party tools like Wallpaper Engine and...

A buried option in a Windows 11 Insider preview suggests Microsoft is quietly restoring the ability to use ordinary video files — MP4, MKV and friends — as looping desktop wallpapers, a modern resurrection of Vista’s long‑forgotten DreamScene that’s already stirring enthusiasts, IT managers, and...

Microsoft is quietly testing a built‑in video wallpaper feature for Windows 11 that lets users set ordinary video files — MP4, MKV, MOV and others — as looping desktop backgrounds directly from Settings or via a contextual “Set as wallpaper” command in File Explorer, a revival of the old...

Microsoft is quietly restoring native video wallpapers to Windows 11 — a DreamScene‑style capability discovered in Insider preview builds that lets ordinary video files play as looping desktop backgrounds without third‑party tools. Background Windows has flirted with animated desktop backgrounds...

Microsoft is quietly testing native animated video wallpapers in Windows 11 Insider builds, a modern revival of the Vista-era DreamScene that lets users set common video files (MP4, MKV, MOV and more) as looping desktop backgrounds — but the capability is experimental, hidden behind an Insider...

Microsoft is quietly testing built‑in support for video wallpapers in Windows 11, a modern revival of the long‑forgotten DreamScene experiment from the Vista era that lets users set looping MP4, MKV and other video files as desktop backgrounds — and this time Microsoft is building the capability...

Windows 11’s personalization options are quietly regaining a long‑requested capability: native video wallpapers that let ordinary video files play as looping desktop backgrounds — a modern echo of Vista’s DreamScene now visible in Insider preview builds and gated behind experimental flags...

Microsoft is quietly testing native video wallpapers in Windows 11 Insider preview builds — a DreamScene‑style feature that lets ordinary video files (MP4, MKV, MOV and others) act as looping desktop backgrounds directly from Settings or a File Explorer context menu — but it remains...

Microsoft is quietly testing built‑in video wallpapers for Windows 11, a modern revival of Vista’s DreamScene that lets ordinary video files act as looping desktop backgrounds directly from Settings — and the change could alter how millions of users personalize their PCs. Background The idea of...

Microsoft has quietly started testing native video wallpapers in Windows 11 Insider Preview builds — a DreamScene‑style capability that lets users set ordinary video files (MP4, MKV and others) as looping desktop backgrounds from the standard Settings UI. Background / Overview For nearly two...

Windows 11 is quietly testing native video wallpapers — a modern, DreamScene‑style capability that lets ordinary video files behave as looping desktop backgrounds — and the change has started showing up in Insider preview builds, sparking a mix of nostalgia and practical questions about battery...