Pluses: Free open-source skins enthusiastic community highly customizable ĭrawbacks / flaws: Quite hard to understand and configure. 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. In there, you should see all the installed themes. To change between these themes, right click Rainmeter's system tray icon and go to themes. If you're using Rainmeter for the first time, you should install the Recommended themes: Enigma, Gnometer and APB. 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. 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. All list themes are gorgeous and highly customizable. Rainmeter comes with a default theme called 'Illusto' and optionally, three other different (recommended) theme suites, 'Enigma', 'Gnometer' and 'APB'. It support any player including the popular AIMP, Foobar2000, iTunes, MediaMonkey, MusicBee, Winamp, VLC Media Player, or Windows Media Player.

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. 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. 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. 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. Let’s say a third party software that is focused on managing desktop gadgets, skins and even themes.

But what if, instead of the default widgets, you want to try something else. One of the areas where Windows 7 noticeably improves things as opposed to Windows XP (and Vista) is the visual customization.

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