AeroFloat
Windows 10 / 11 · x64 · v1.2.0
AeroFloat renders looping 4K video beneath your desktop icons with GPU decode and WorkerW injection. When a fullscreen game or player owns the display, Zero-Resource Deep Sleep unloads the pipeline — idle CPU, idle GPU, until you come back.
Per-user installer · No admin / UAC · 100% free
Simulates a fullscreen title taking the display. Wallpaper freezes; the pipeline goes idle.
The engine
Cinematic while you work. Invisible while you play, watch, or unplug.
Watches the Win32 foreground. Exclusive fullscreen, DirectX, or a media player owning the display freezes playback and detaches Media Foundation — wallpaper cost drops to idle until the desktop returns.
Drop looping .mp4 files into Games, Anime, or Cars. AeroFloat scans at runtime, builds animated preview cards, and crossfades the active wallpaper behind your icons.
WorkerW hosts the surface under shortcuts so they stay clickable. Optional acrylic composition tints the taskbar to the wallpaper. Explorer restarts are reattached by a self-heal timer.
Libraries
The dashboard is Mica. The catalog is whatever you place on disk — nothing ships in the cloud.
Night cities, operators, neon interiors — looping behind This PC.
Rain, light, still frames that never sit still. Hardware decode, local files.
Night drives and carbon, presented at your monitor’s refresh when the GPU allows.
Hardware
Hardware decode unlocked to the display — 60, 144, up to 240 Hz class presentation.
3840×2160 · FPS unlocked
Automatic 1080p presentation capped at 30 FPS with strict memory use while on battery or integrated graphics.
1920×1080 · 30 FPS cap
Documentation
Short, accurate pages for first run, custom MP4s, SmartScreen, and the 1.2.0 desktop surface.
FAQ
Yes. Distributed free outside the Microsoft Store. Download the installer from GitHub Releases.
No. The installer targets %LocalAppData%\SloopNodge\AeroFloat. No UAC prompt.
Deep Sleep detects fullscreen titles and unloads the wallpaper render pipeline. Cost drops to idle until you return to the desktop.
Yes. Place looping .mp4 files in Assets/Wallpapers/Games, Anime, or Cars inside the install folder. The dashboard rescans on navigation.
That is Microsoft Defender SmartScreen reputation for new publishers — not a malware verdict. AeroFloat is open source. Click More info, then Run anyway. The prompt fades for everyone once the app has enough install history.
Windows 11 and Windows 10 version 2004 (build 19041) or newer, 64-bit.
Desktop lab
Estimates only — they model cost, they do not promise a frame time on your GPU.
Configuration simulator
Configure, then run. Score is efficiency, not marketing FPS.
4K @ 144 Hz on dedicated GPU ≈ 18–28% decode load in this model.
With sleep armed, fullscreen ownership drops wallpaper cost to idle in the model.
144 Hz / 4K pairs with the dedicated tier. iGPU is capped at 1080p30 in-app.
Windows 10 2004+ or Windows 11, x64, per-user path, no UAC. WebView2 optional for some chrome.
Estimated file ≈ 45 MB. Prefer 1080p loops on iGPU.
Install in under a minute. No account. No admin. No cost.
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