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I have followed all the instructions I can find on the internet 100% I think, but I still cannot set an animated wallpaper as my wallpaper.

I was able to do it at one time, I just right clicked the wallpaper and pressed set as background

I then did a system restore because of a different program and now the option is not there

Please help me with this, I will be very grateful and so will others with the same problem

Cheers

What are you trying to do - use VLC to set a video wallpaper, or are you using Vista and want to use Vista's animated wallpaper feature? If the latter, then wrong forum.

Arite.

I want to use VLC to set a video wallpaper, have dun it before but then, well, as my post says

Well in VLC you can open a video then go to "Video >> DirectX Wallpaper".

Arite.

That is only temporary and only whilst vlc is up, playing the video

Yes. If you want to always have it looped you could add a shortcut to VLC to the "Startup" menu in the Start Menu.

Then right click it, look at the commandline string that is run. For example try: Where INPUT is the file you want to play.

Arite.

Hmmm well i didnt work :S i begining to think now that the option to set as wallpaper when right clicking the video was from the other program Dreamscene with the home premium patch

Well the process you described as right-clicking a wallpaper and clicking "Set as Background" would be a Vista animated wallpaper and not VLC.

The above commandline does work though. If you do a "Start >> Run..." and enter that (putting the location of a file in the place of INPUT) it should work. There are a coulple of VLC windows as well however.

Arite.