How To Animate Windows 7 Start Button

How to Animate the Windows 7 Start Menu Button?


Here we wanna try and give you the correct information of how to do exactly that, every multimedia savvy's dream, watching your start button animate all the time, it's pretty simple actually, all you need is this simple tool called Windows 7 Start Button Animator, which you can download here.


Windows 7 Start Button Animator is a free portable tool that allows you to set an animated start button in Windows 7. You can set any animated gif image as your start button.

How to use:

• Run the tool. You will now see an animated orb instead of the old unanimated orb.

• Click on the orb icon in the system tray.

• Click on Select Orb and choose your desired GIF animation.

• Change Image Style to the style that best matches to your image.

• Change Taskbar Position to the position of your taskbar.

• If you want the tool to run everytime Windows starts up then select Run on Startup.

• Click Apply.

Troubleshooting possible problems:


Problem.1
The start button appears on top of the video I am watching.
Solution: Select Video Mode in the Settings.

Problem.2
When I close the tool, the default unanimated orb is not there.
Solution: Click on Restore Orb in the Settings.


Problem.3
When I click on Restore Orb, the default unanimated orb is still not there.
Solution: 
Do the following:

- Make sure that the program is closed.- Take ownership of C:\Windows\explorer.exe (Change C to your system drive)- Run the program as admin and select Restore Orb again.

That is how to animate windows 7 start button, just like what i said before all you need is this simple free tool and your start button is good to go ^_^