Rainmeter is the best known and most popular desktop customization program for Windows. Enhance your Windows computer at home or work with skins; handy, compact applets that float freely on your desktop. Rainmeter skins provide you with useful information at a glance. It's easy to keep an eye on your system resources, like memory and battery power, or your online data streams, including email, RSS feeds, and weather forecasts.
Many skins are even functional: they can record your notes and to-do lists, launch your favorite applications, control your media player - all in a clean, unobtrusive interface that you can rearrange and customize to your liking.
There are thousands and thousands of skins available, crafted by a large and ever-growing community of Rainmeter users.
Rainmeter is not just an application, it is a robust toolkit. Create and modify your own skins in a simple language that's easy to learn, with the help of our extensive documentation, getting started guide and skin tutorials. Skins call upon measures, a set of powerful built-in modules that do all the heavy lifting, and create interactive meters to display that information however you decide. In this way, Rainmeter brings productive innovation together with creative artistry like no other platform of its kind.
Rainmeter is a community. People in our forums are always happy to help you get started or answer questions. Over the last few years, a thriving community has built up around Rainmeter, as average users freely contribute their own original skins, their generous knowledge and support, and their inspirational ideas to a project whose scope and capabilities are constantly expanding.
Rainmeter is designed for YOUR system. Rainmeter uses very little CPU and RAM resources, has a tiny space footprint, and will run perfectly well on any hardware using Windows XP through Windows 8.
Rainmeter is free and open source. Rainmeter is open source software distributed free of charge under the terms of the GNU GPL v2 license. If you want to get involved, check the Rainmeter GitHub repository.
If you plan to use your computer a lot, it might as well look pretty. Rainmeter offers thousands of fully customizable, user-created live desktops free for download.
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Rainmeter comes with a few simple starter skins that provide a good place to start learning how to use and modify Rainmeter. There is also a vast and growing community of Rainmeter users who share the skins they create. Listed below are some of the better places where you can get new skins to use and modify. Download as many different skins as you like, you can always switch between them.
deviantArtdeviantArt hosts one of the largest online repositories of Rainmeter resources. The Rainmeter Group's curated gallery contains skins that are checked to be sure they work and are safe. You may also wish to browse the entire Rainmeter Category gallery.
Customize.orgCustomize.org is also one of the largest and oldest sources of Rainmeter skins. One of the first sites to host skins people wanted to share, it is a good place to find older work that you might not find elsewhere.
Lifehacker Desktop Show & TellMany of the most creative minds are continuously posting screenshots and details on their Rainmeter-incorporated desktop setups in the official Lifehacker pool.
Reddit (/r/rainmeter)The Rainmeter community on Reddit is a great place to get ideas and tips for Rainmeter, see and share things people are creating, and get involved with others using Rainmeter.
Rainmeter Forum: Share Your CreationsIt's a little-known fact that many of the most fresh and innovative skins are being developed right here in the forums on rainmeter.net.
Note: As with anything you download from the internet, a certain amount of caution is advised when downloading and installing Rainmeter skins you get from other than rainmeter.net directly.
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