Custom windows desktop

Custom windows desktop

How to achieve a custom windows desktop? With Rainmeter and help of its widgets it is easy to give a new look and feel to your windows desktop.

It can be downloaded from official site http://rainmeter.net/

Basic tutorial

I am using the 3.3 Beta Release and chosed to use the portable version during installation so my settings are stored on one place.

Huge community exists which creates themes / widgets for rainmeter and its widgets. Those are combined / tweaked to create wished look and feel.

Overview of sites with rainmeter skins / themes:

http://rainmeter.deviantart.com/gallery/

http://customize.org/rainmeter

http://rainmeterskins.org/

Example of theme which I created with combination of different widgets.

Skins / widgets used for my desktop:

1. Circuit Two
2. Enigma
3. Frost
4. La compagnie des ombres
5. SCaLPI
6. Tech-A
7. VisBubble

Following parts of the above widgets where activated: