Tired of your boring old possibly cluttered desktop? Want news, weather, system performance information, and more all portrayed on your screen? Look no further than Rainmeter! Rainmeter is a desktop customization platform. Through Rainmeter, you can enhance your Windows computer with skins and compact applets much like Yahoo Widgets and Windows Sidebar gadgets. However, unlike Yahoo Widgets and the Windows Sidebar, in order to use Rainmeter you need to access some basic Wordpad files and manipulate some code. There are plenty of tutorials and most of it is self explanatory – but if you are afraid of doing that sort of thing, Rainmeter is not for you.
1. Install
Go here and install Rainmeter
2. Install a skin
Go here and pick a default skin, once you are satisfied, you can go here to download even more custom applets!
3. Customize!
Right click the Rainmeter icon in your taskbar and fool around! Configure your skins and save you themes. Check out this link to see what my desktop looks like.
I use –
Enigma – Gmail Reader
- New mail shows up under here
Enigma – MoxaWeather
- Calgary Weather
Illustro – Feeds
- CBC Feed
Kerrigan – CPU
- CPU (The bar scrolls and the gears move!)
Kerrigan – RAM
- RAM (The Gears rotate too!)
Taranbeer – Clock
- Clock
But don’t let my suggestions limit you, have fun with it!