Rainmeter Made Easy

Customize Desktop Using Rainmeter

Here is a simple way to make using rainmeter a bit easier than it already is. To Customize you desktop do the following:

1. Choose a single color wallpaper for your desktop.

2. Minimize the number of icons you have on the desktop. To provide a clean look remove everything !

3. Close all rainmeter widgets (if any) that are already open on the desktop.

4. Right click on rainmeter logo on system tray and go to Enigma > sidebar/taskbar

5. You will see a sub menu with serval .ini files on display ( calendar.ini, week.ini etc.)

6. Clicking the .ini files opens the widget onto the desktop.

7. Think of all the widgets you want on you desktop and put them one by one arranging them.

8. Now that we have the widgets we need, we need to further customize each widget bu adjusting its settings.

9. This is done by opening the .ini file in notebook and editing under the 'variables' section.

More about adjusting settings of the widgets in the next post...

Installing Rainmeter on your Computer

It is not very difficult to get use Rainmeter. However getting used to it is time consuming and this blog aims to help you to get a Rainmeter desktop for your computer today! Here is what you do....

1. Download Rainmeter

2. Download and these two sample Skins - Enigma & ABP

3. Install Rainmeter:

To install Rainmeter, run the installer. By default Rainmeter will install in "C:\Program Files\Rainmeter", but you may install it in any folder you wish. The installer presents you with a set of options allowing you to create Start Menu and desktop shortcuts, have Rainmeter automatically start with Windows (recommended), and install Rainmeter for all users. When Rainmeter starts the first time, it will install the default skins and themes in the proper folder locations and load the illustro suite of skins by itself. When you run Rainmeter you should see a small raindrop icon appear on the taskbar. Right clicking it will give you several options which we shall discuss in the next post.

What is Rainmeter?

Rainmeter is a powerful desktop customization tool and is already bringing together peoples online and offline activities together on a personalized desktop. It is fairly simple to use though it might take a bit of getting used to. On this blog you will find simply explained information on how to install and use rainmeter and download various skins for use with it.

These are only few of the items that Rainmeter can display on your desktop :