Discover | Rainmeter Rainmeter comes with a few simple starter skins that provide a good place to start learning how to use and modify Rainmeter. There is also a vast and growing community of Rainmeter users who share the skins they create. Listed below are some of the better places where you can get new skins to use and modify. Download as many different skins as you like, you can always switch between them. Lifehacker Desktop Show & Tell Many of the most creative minds are continuously posting screenshots and details on their Rainmeter-incorporated desktop setups in the official Lifehacker pool. Reddit (/r/rainmeter) The Rainmeter community on Reddit is a great place to get ideas and tips for Rainmeter, see and share things people are creating, and get involved with others using Rainmeter. Note: As with anything you download from the internet, a certain amount of caution is advised when downloading and installing Rainmeter skins you get from other than rainmeter.net directly.
Manual | Rainmeter Rainmeter displays customizable skins, like memory and battery charge, RSS feeds and weather forecasts, right on your desktop. Many skins are even functional: 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. Rainmeter is at once an application and a toolkit. You are limited only by your imagination and creativity. Getting started with Rainmeter After downloading and installing Rainmeter, the very next stop should be Getting Started. Getting Started is a new user introduction to Rainmeter, covering both how to use the application, and starting guides and tutorials for creating and editing skins. Using the rest of this documentation, and the experience of using and learning Rainmeter, will be much easier and more enjoyable with the overview Getting Started provides. Using the Rainmeter application Creating and editing skins More information
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