Windows Vista-era video wallpapers make a hidden return in Windows 11

[LimyG]

Yep, plenty of apps for that. I don't even use an app, just search Google images for one the same res as my monitor, ideally, and set manually.

Literally 1,000s of images free to download, any theme you can think of.

The only downside to this method is that the wallpaper won't auto change. It will stay as set (but remember it for easy reapply) until manually changed. Theme settings like transparency or colours of task bar etc will auto set to the image, but I prefer to create my own.

Subjective thing. My method isn't much good for folks who want a new wallpaper/theme automatically, daily for instance. I doubt such apps use much, hardly any resources, so no downside really. Totally up to the user.

For me after I find an image that I like, I'm happy to stick with it for quite a while. Get bored with it, I just check my photos library, or download something new. As my GPU is an Asus Strix I use some of their freebie wallpapers sometimes. Actually they are free for anyone.
Select image, select resolution, download and set it.

 

[WaphleStomp]

Like XP, it had a rough start, but by SP2 it was great!

That says much more about you than anything else.

Once again, says more about you than anything else.

Some of us, who had good hardware at the time, enjoyed Vista. The glitches and driver issues were unpleasant, but overall it was a decent OS. Once they fixed the problems it was great. The wallpapers were always a good thing.

I guess you missed the tone of my post; it was all tongue-in-cheek, not to be taken literally.
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[WaphleStomp]

So far, since W3.1 W95 etc, all of which I used, W11 is by far the worst bloated abomination ever!!

Somewhere around 100Mn lines of code - yep, that's bloated.

 

[LimyG]

Somewhere around 100Mn lines of code - yep, that's bloated.

Totally! 100million lines. Sheesh. I wonder:
1. How many lines are telemetry related.
2. How many lines are forced bloat.
3. How many lines make up the actual OS itself. ???

 

[WaphleStomp]

Totally! 100million lines. Sheesh. I wonder:
1. How many lines are telemetry related.
2. How many lines are forced bloat.
3. How many lines make up the actual OS itself. ???

Unfortunately those are not questions for which I have answers, but I too would be interested to know, if anyone else has said info.

 

[LimyG]

Unfortunately those are not questions for which I have answers, but I too would be interested to know, if anyone else has said info.

Whatever the breakdown is, it would be a closely guarded secret.
I don't expect anyone to know (outside of MS top brass). Just wondering out loud.