Customize your desktop with various skins, displaying the weather forecast, battery power, available memory, notes, to-do lists, etc.
Rainmeter is a system modification tool for Windows PCs. It installs an overlay menu on top of your desktop that shows useful information about the state of your computer, among other things. There are a few themes that come built-in with Rainmenter. My favorite was Gnometer, which is a very easy-on-the-eye bar with a dark background and easily readable text. The other theme, Enigma, is a much more complete informative tool, but I found that it didn't work for me. Because it had too much information on-screen at all times. This is of course all about personal choice. Both themes are very well achieved and very useful.
By default, Gnometer installs a dark horizontal bar at the top of the screen, which contains floating gadgets. There were 4 gadgets installed at first: calendar, drives, recycle bin, and system. The drives gadget shows free space on your hard drives, the recycle bin shows the space of your trash bin and the system gadget shows your CPU ussage, RAM, and SWAP. You can of course add other gadgets. I ended up adding a weather gadget powered by MSN weather.
You can add new gadgets to both themes from the tray icon. Switching between themes seems to erase your settings, so you have to start configuring again. It takes a bit for themes to switch.
v2.5.0.1842 [Nov 18, 2012]
FileView plugin. This powerful new plugin will index and gather information about all files and folders in a defined path. Information supported includes the path, name, size, type, date, and icon. Commands can be used to scroll through the index of files, move up and down in the folder tree, and select files for display or opening with the associated program.
Added new ClipString=2 setting and new ClipStringW / ClipStringH options. This will allow for more dynamic clipping and wrapping of a string while sizing the containing meter to accommodate the entire contents. Details are at Change Announcements.
Added new Mouse Actions to support the scroll wheel. Details are at Change Announcements.
Added new Mouse Variables. These are "macro" variables used in the context of a mouse click action to provide the current X and Y position of the mouse cursor relative to the meter or skin in pixels or a percentage. Details are at Change Announcements.
Added new OnUpdateAction command to Skins, Meters and Measures. This will allow an action to take place when the element is updated normally or by any bang.
Added new OnChangeAction command to Measures. This will allow an action to take place when the value of a measure changes.
Added new OnFocusAction and OnUnFocusAction options to the [Rainmeter] section of the skin, to execute actions when a skin gains or loses focus (by clicking it) in Windows.
Added "*" as a wildcard parameter to the !UpdateMeasure and !UpdateMeter bangs to immediately update all measures and meters.
Changed the behavior of the WebParser ProxyServer option to better handle how WebParser interacts with Internet Explorer for proxy management.
Vista Inspirat will transform your old XP Theme to the attractive Vista Theme
