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Here's one piece of software I found that claims to be able to do it: Animated desktop icons with Microangelo
You can download it for a 7-day trial, costs $25 for permanent license.
I have no personal experience using it.
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that is awesome strollin! at least someone is 'truckin' ...
Unfortunately, there has been no input from the OP.
This was interesting, even though the OP left. I have an older Microangelo that makes only still icons, and I've used it for many years.
.ani is the format of Windows animated cursors. Would it still swallow up resources? would that be RAM or CPU power?
on XP there was a software called microangelo dealing with icons (an icon suite) with an attached complement named display or active display, I don't remember that enabled animated icons on the desktop.
You could also install litestep (Browse Application Interfaces | Designs & Interfaces | DeviantArt), an alternative UI for windows, taking place of the explorer (little time consuming to configure and tweak to your needs) with hundred of themes. I don't know if all the modules back then are still working but years ago I designed a Spawn theme with an animated brazier for the recycle bin, wooshing when you dropped or deleted an item.