Setting your desktop background to an animated video is one of those things that seems really cool at first thought, but the practical implementations—including an official version from Microsoft back in the Vista days—always leave me cold. Still, PCs are a lot more powerful than they used to be, and it looks like Windows 11 is giving it another go with the latest Insider builds.

Social media user PhantomOfEarth is a frequent digger-upper of new Windows features, and they spotted this in the latest developer and beta builds for Windows 11. You can apparently now set MP4 video files and other frequently-used formats as your desktop background and they’ll animate with surprising smoothness.

Windows DreamScene is back! Hidden in the latest Windows 11 Dev/Beta build (26×20.6690) is built i

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