What and Why Rainmeter?

What and Why Rainmeter?

                           The most modern operating systems are provided with a lot of customization options for its users.They will be of great use when you want to customize your desktop with various applications you use.This would be enough for a moderate user but if you are not, are they satisfying your exact needs? Probably not. This is because most of them came with some 

predefined options for desktop customization and you had to accept what options they provide. 

                          Here comes the need of a customization tool which accepts your opinion and creativity while customizing your desktop and satisfies your requirements.

What is Rainmeter ?

Rainmeter is one of the best known and most popular desktop customization program for Windows. It is an open source software distributed free of charge under the terms of the GNU GPL v2 license. 
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. 
Rainmeter displays customizable skins, like memory and battery power, RSS feeds and weather forecasts, right on your desktop. Many skins are even functional as they can record your notes and to-do lists, launch your favorite applications, and control your media player - all in a clean, unobtrusive interface that you can rearrange and customize to your liking. 

Why Rainmeter?

There are millions of desktop customization tools available in the market .Then why Rainmeter.

It is because :

Rainmeter is not just an application, it is a robust toolkit:

Rainmeter is at once an application and a toolkit. You are only limited by your imagination and creativity. So You can create and modify your own skins in a simple language that's easy to learn, with the help of extensive documentation, getting started guide and skin tutorials from Rainmeter. Limited use of System Resource: 

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 Constantly expanding: 

There are thousands and thousands of skins available, crafted by a large and ever-growing community of Rainmeter users.Also Rainmeter forum helps you to get started and helps with answers for your queries on Rainmeter. With the Rainmeter community thousands of new skins and creative ideas are being developed and are being supported by Rainmeter and thereby constantly expanding themselves.

Rainmeter is free and open source:

The greatest advantage is that Rainmeter is an open source software distributed free of charge under the terms of the GNU GPL v2 license.

Rainmeter Recommended Starter Skin Suites :

Rainmeter comes with a few simple starter skins that provide a good place to start learning how to use and modify Rainmeter.

These skins have been designed, tested and are used by the Rainmeter community.

Gnometer

Download this from Rainmeter: DOWNLOAD

Enigma

Download this from Rainmeter: DOWNLOAD

ABP

Download this from Rainmeter: DOWNLOAD

Website for Rainmeter: Rainmeter.net

Note:

1. Read the Manuals ,tutorials and documents (which you can download from the website) before using Rainmeter.

2.Always download the skin packages from the Rainmeter.net site only.

3.Take care while installing and editing packages.

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