Getting Started Rainmeter is an open source, desktop customization tool. With it, you can use skins; different applications that float freely on your desktop to enhance your desktop. /r/Rainmeter is the best place to see nice desktops, sweet skins, and find answers to all your Rainmeter problems! Download Rainmeter. Tutorial For Beginners. Versions 4.0 and above are compatible with Windows 7 and above. Rainmeter 2.3 RC introduces a new.rmskin format and Skin Packager, which allows easy creation of new format.rmskin files.This change accompanies the Addons deprecation and folder rearrangements. Rainmeter comes with a few simple starter skins that provide a good place to start, but the biggest part of the community are skins which you install onto your system.

If you want to customize your Windows desktop, it doesn't get much better than Rainmeter. RainmeterHub is a new site that lets you browse and download new skins for your killer setup.

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So, if you are super eager to make this tool yours, and create your Rainmeter skins, then don’t stop reading, as we bring you, the top 25 cool Rainmeter skin’s to personalize your Windows desktop background and add useful functions. To get you started with this fantastic software. The limit is a fresh and straightforward rainmeter skin suite featuring easily scalable skins. The popular feature of this skin is “The text “fills” up as its value grows” that attract Rainmeter fans to download this feature. Skins and suites are then installed by the user with just a double click or directly from a download site in their browser. Rainmeter 1.2 has a host of improvements to better support Windows 7.

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If you've been longing for an organized directory of Rainmeter skins, your wish has finally come true. RainmeterHub is a user-sourced collection of skins for all sorts of different things, sorted into category and arranged in a beautiful, easy-to-use tiled interface. This is the site Rainmeter has needed for a long time.

It's still brand new, and you can submit skins to build up the directory even more—but for something that's only been out for a few weeks, it has a pretty good database already. Hit the link to check it out, and if you're just getting started with Rainmeter, see our guide to setting it up for more info.

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Windows only: Desktop customization application Rainmeter updates again, adding a new default skin, theme packaging tools, and full support for Windows 7—including multiple monitor support.

The new default skin replaces Enigma as the default, but if you're a fan of the Enigma desktop customization you'll be happy to know it's still included. Rather than rehash all of the new features, here's the most important ones from the announcement page:

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Rainmeter now includes a new default suite of skins: Gnometer by Poiru. Gnometer is a colorful and exciting alternative to the default Enigma suite. It contains skins which show off with all the information you could want on your desktop, and is fully configurable by the user with an easy to use settings tool.

Rainmeter 1.2 introduces Rainstaller and the .rmskin format. This utility makes it much easier to distribute and install skins and suites. Rainstaller allows skinners to include addons, fonts and themes along with their skins in a single .rmskin package. Skins and suites are then installed by the user with just a double click or directly from a download site in their browser.

Rainmeter 1.2 has a host of improvements to better support Windows 7. Fully configurable support for multiple monitors has been added, so you can position and save your Rainmeter setup in your multiple monitor environment. Rainmeter 1.2 now supports having your skins stay on the screen if desired when Windows 7's 'Show Desktop' is used.

A new RainBackup utility is included, so users can save their entire setup as a Rainmeter .rmskin file, making moving your setup to a different computer or recovering from a system crash / reinstall much easier.

Rainmeter 1.2 now supports having both the program and the skins / settings stored on network shared drives using UNC paths like 'SERVERFolderName'.

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Readers should note that this release fixes one of the long-standing problems with Rainmeter—now when you use the Show Desktop feature in Windows 7, there's an optional feature to make Rainmeter stay on the desktop. Rainmeter is a free download for Windows only.

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