Just by one click, all the looks of your desktop will be changed. In short, Rainmeter is a kind of application using which you can transform your old looking windows to a new looking amazing desktop.

It just adds new looks to your windows PC.īy using Rainmeter it just does not replace any applications. Many of my friends ask me whether a rainmeter is going to track your window’s actions or not so the simple answer is it just doesn’t track anything.

It cannot change the appearance of your taskbar, Start button, desktop icons, file explorer, or other built-in Windows components. Rainmeter does not change your Windows visual style. However, it is very important to understand what actually Rainmeter does not do to your system: Just like our android phone launchers, it includes a powerful set of features that can be customized and will continually surprise you at every point of time. Now to explain it further Rainmeter is just a tool that can be used to customize your Windows PC. It allows users to create and display user-generated customizable desktop widgets or applets called “skins” that display information. I don’t think there is any other weather skin that works as well.As per Wikipedia, Rainmeter is a free and open-source desktop customization utility for Windows, released under the GNU GPL v2 license. SilverAzide has been diligent on keeping up and releasing fixes. has repeatedly changed their API interface. I have delayed some updates but the small development team is very good about releasing working products (probably better testing than a well known Redmond WA company). And Rainmeter has been very reliable on Win10. I cannot find any reason to believe that Rainmeter skins would pose a security risk.

I’ve written a few of my own (I really like to just glance at the lower right corner of the desktop and see “Win -19041.388”.) It isn’t the easiest product to set up as the OP noted but they surely are nice (and not too hard to build your own simple item).įor your questions: Live tiles only work on Start not the desktop. Most from which set out to replicate the Win7 Gadgets. I have 8 “skins” running on my desktop right now. I’ve used Rainmeter for some years now on Win10.

Rainmeter widgets