Skins in the Rainmeter Skin Packager (.rmskin) format can be easily and automatically installed with the Rainmeter Skin Installer. During a normal Rainmeter installation, the.rmskin extension is associated in Windows with the Skin Installer program, and simply double-clicking the file will install it in Rainmeter. Download lots of stunning rainmeter weather skins now from here! If you want to forecast the weather fast on your desktop, then use one of these awesome skins.

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Rainmeter is an incredibly customizable performance meter for your PC's desktop.Once a relatively complicated application, Rainmeter developers have increasingly striven to make the meter's interface more user friendly. This trend started with the 1.0 release and continues now that 2.0 is available. In fact, Rainmeter can do some pretty cool things to your windows desktop, and it's easier than ever now to apply new settings.

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Rainmeter is a desktop customization platform. Through Rainmeter, you can enhance your Windows computer at home or work with skins: handy, compact applets which float freely on your desktop, much like Windows Sidebar gagdgets, or dashboard widgets.

Last update26 Sep. 2011 | old versionsLicence FreeOS SupportWindows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 7 x64Ranking#4 in Desktop Management

Rainmeter Editor's Review

One of the areas where Windows 7 noticeably improves things as opposed to Windows XP (and Vista) is the visual customization. But what if, instead of the default widgets, you want to try something else. Let’s say a third party software that is focused on managing desktop gadgets, skins and even themes. Rainmeter is the perfect example for such a demand and its latest version 2.1 proves one more time its detailed and comprehensive approach towards dektop customization.
Rainmeter comes with a variety of handy applets that can provide useful information such as weather, RSS feeds, calendar, e-mail, news, notes, clock, and much more. Moreover, you can view stats of your computer components such as CPU usage, download and upload speed, hard-drive condition, RAM usage and much more. With version 2.1 comes also the option to control your audio player directly from the Now Playing tool which can be activated and located on any Rainmeter layer. It support any player including the popular AIMP, Foobar2000, iTunes, MediaMonkey, MusicBee, Winamp, VLC Media Player, or Windows Media Player.
Rainmeter comes with a default theme called 'Illusto' and optionally, three other different (recommended) theme suites, 'Enigma', 'Gnometer' and 'APB'. All list themes are gorgeous and highly customizable. However, for those who aren't crazy about these themes, there is a wide variety of themes around the Internet thanks to the enthusiastic community of fans. Features also vary from theme to theme but they can be reconfigured in many ways, as each individual module can be dragged and dropped anywhere wherever you want on the screen.
If you're using Rainmeter for the first time, you should install the Recommended themes: Enigma, Gnometer and APB. To change between these themes, right click Rainmeter's system tray icon and go to themes. In there, you should see all the installed themes. To add, remove or configure a gadget of your current theme, right-click on the Rainmeter skin and from there, you can change the skin, edit skin parameters, change skin position, add other widgets (such as clock, disk, feeds, network, weather, Facebook, Twitter, etc) and much more.
Pluses: Free; open-source skins; enthusiastic community; highly customizable;
Drawbacks / flaws: Quite hard to understand and configure. You'll have to spend some time reading the documentation if you want to use this program at full power.
In conclusion: Rainmeter is a highly customizable desktop platform that allows you to add and drag around sidebar gadgets that can offer you all the information that you need: feeds, tweets, Facebook, calendar, mail, network, notes, system and much more.
version reviewed: 2.1

What's New in Version 2.1 of Rainmeter

September 18, 2011
RELEASE OF RAINMETER 2.1
Fixed that using '!Execute [']' opens program folder (results in no action now)
NowPlayingPlugin: Fixed a bug with 'SetVolume=100' and Winamp
September 11, 2011
Manage Skins: Load order can now be changed.
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Fix: PLAY/PLAYLOOP commands didn't work with relative paths.
Errors that used to pop up messagebox are now logged and shown in the About Log dialog.
Added #CURRENTFILE# variable.
This will return the file name of the currently loaded .ini file. Path is not included, but can be obtained with #CURRENTPATH##CURRENTFILE#.
NowPlayingPlugin: Added SHUFFLE and REPEAT types and accompanying SetShuffle and SetRepeat bangs.
Read manual entry for usage instructions. VLC users should install the libcad_plugin 1.0.1 update and foobar2000 users should install the foo_rainmeter.dll 1.0.3 update.
September 4, 2011
Added the ability to use Ctrl Key to override mouse actions on skin or in Rainmeter.ini.
Bug fixes and additional functionality for Manager and About.
August 28, 2011
Added new 'Manager' functionality,
Changes to the 'About' dialog.
Changes to 'Metadata' fields.
DEBUG messages from plugins are now only logged if Debug= is set on the skin or Rainmeter.
Details are Here.
August 21, 2011
Added a new Magic Quote feature, consisting of three quotes ''. This will allow you to 'escape' quotes you need to send in a bang to Rainmeter.
WebParser: Errors and warnings are now logged as errors and warnings (instead of as debug).
NowPlayingPlugin: Minor changes, fix to 'current track functionality'.
August 14, 2011
Changed print() function in Lua to allow printing tables in to log columns.
Fix for 'On Desktop' to better work with 'Show Desktop' in Windows.
Changes Rainstaller, RainThemes, RainBrowser and RainBackup to correct an issue where %APPDATA% was not being found consistently.
Fix for Rainstaller to correct a UAC issue on some user's systems.
August 7, 2011
Several minor bug fixes for Lua scripting functionality.
Tweak to performance when writing network statistics.
Fix for Cumulative=1 on Net/xx measures not working correctly.
July 31, 2011
Added new !SetOption / !SetOptionGroup bangs.
Allows changing most 'settings' on a measure or meter via a bang. Note that DynamicVariables=1 is NOT required to use this functionality.
!SetOption [Meter] [Option] [Value] (Config)
!SetOption [Measure] [Option] [Value] (Config)
!SetOptionGroup [Group] [Option] [Value] (Config)
Examples:
!SetOption 'MeterOne' 'FontSize' 11
!SetOption 'MeasureOne' 'Formula' '((MeasureTwo * 4)/10)'
Added new Meter:GetOption() / Measure:GetOption() functions to Lua scipting.
Allows a Lua script to retrieve most 'settings' from any measure or meter in a skin.
Examples:
MyMeter = SKIN:GetMeter('MeterOne')
MyMeter:GetOption('FontSize')
MyMeasure = SKIN:GetMeter('MeasureOne')
MyMeasure:GetOption('Formula')
Added support for Regular Expressions in Substitute on all measures.
Allows using Regular Expressions to replace values returned by a measure.
Requires RegExpSubstitute=1 on the measure. See Manual Page for details
Added ability to 'escape' real variables and measures as follows: #*RealVar*# / [*RealMeasure*]
This allows a 'literal' #VarName# or [MeasureName] to be used without Rainmeter resolving them to their values.
A case where this would be useful is to use the new !SetOption to set a meter's 'FontColor' to literally #SomeOtherColor#, which is defined in [Variables] instead of having what is set resolved to the current value of #SomeOtherColor#.
Script: Fixed Lua c

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