Are you using Animated Wallpapers?

not really, i consider that a waste of resources since i cover my desktop almost the 95% of my PC usage time

I'm w/ Kristhian

Unless, at some point, there is an increase of usability that comes out of this technology, I could care less for em'.

I've never used one, but I guess it could be entertaining at times, like when I'm working at my desk (but not using my computer) and keep my monitor on.

I agree with egolatra, but It's still cool if you can have like a living aquarium wallpaper thingy or something similar.

oh and I think most of those animated wallpapers are made only for vista.

thats what screensavers are for.

So those that think animated wallpaper is useless, then do you have any wallpaper at all? Or is it just a solid color?

Too distracting and processor intensive for my liking -- hiding all windows to reveal the desktop will be even more of a slog on my laptop. And the chopped frame rate that would result would be unacceptable.

Depends on how animated wallpaper is being implemented.

On Vista Ultimate, a dynamic animated wallpaper can use basically 0% CPU. It's all GPU based.

But you hit the nail on the head -- it's not about whether they're animated as much as whether they're attractive and slow down the comptuer. I'm not about to give up any performance in order to have an animated wallpaper.

The question for me is whether Windows Vista will be where we turn the corner and can actually do this stuff without slowing down our machines.

FrogBoy says:

So those that think animated wallpaper is useless, then do you have any wallpaper at all? Or is it just a solid color?

Yes, it's a non animated one.