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Look through the offerings and find a suite or two you like I took a shine to the Aranea and Mass Effect skins, myself.Īctivating a newly installed Rainmeter suite is simple: if it doesn’t prompt you to activate the suite when you install it, get things going by opening up Rainmeter’s management window. Open the Skins tab and click Refresh All in the bottom left-hand corner. Rainmeter’s management options appear in a new window. rmskin extractor, simply move the complete folder to the Rainmeter > Skins folder that has appeared in My Documents, then open Rainmeter’s management options by activating Rainmeter (the raindrop icon) in your system tray or right-clicking a skin and selecting Manage Skin.

The author’s PC desktop customized with Rainmeter. And ber in mind that Rainmeter skins have the. So be sure to scan download suites with an antivirus program before installing them. Not only does that mean that the quality of the available vitems varies considerably, but skin suites downloaded via third-party sites could contain malware. On the plus side, the suites available through have been screened for both quality and safety.Īnyone can create a Rainmeter skin, and plenty of people do, as you can see by browsing the Rainmeter sections of and Deviant Art. View the ‘RainMeter Skins Gallery’ online, or click on the ‘download gallery’ tab to download the desktop version.The Rainmeter website offers three complete, top-notch skin suites-including the aforementioned Enigma-but that’s it. You will need to be online in order to view the gallery, even when using the executable desktop version.Some of the downloads contain individual widgets and/or launchers, and not a group of objects.

Although in many ncases each thumbnail in the skins gallery represents desktop elements that are grouped together as a ‘skin’, in reality you can mix and match, activating and deactivating disparate elements as you please.

You will need to have RainMeter installed in order to use the skins/widgets from the skins gallery.

It comes in two flavors: a web page, which displays the skins and widgets as thumbnails, as well as a local download, which displays thumbnails on your desktop. The ‘RainMeter Skins Gallery’ is exactly what sounds like, a gallery of some of the best and/or most interesting RainMeter downloads. This software has matured since we wrote about it more than a year ago, with more and more user-generated skins, tools, and tweaks.

RainMeter, to quote our original review of it, is “one of the most powerful free desktop customization and widget engines on the Windows platform”.