▷ Personalize your desktop to a new level: rainmeter windows 10

One of the programs that are capable of providing you with the tools to design an original, and totally personalized desktop is Rainmeter. This application is based on the installation of custom Widgets to place them on the desktop and provide you with a large number of functionalities. We will be able to monitor the CPU and other components, their temperatures, add icon bars for shortcuts, weather forecast and a number of interesting elements.

In addition, Rainmeter Windows 10 is a free program, as well as its different skins or skins, so we will not have any type of problem in its installation.

With this application we will not only be able to install these widgets or skins, but we will also be able to create new ones, if we are skilled with programming, or customize the ones that we download if we take a while of patience and tenacity.

Install Rainmeter

To install this program, we should not go to its official website and download it.

It is possible that the system or the browser alerts you that it is a suspicious program, but the truth is that they do not have any type of virus or affect the correct operation of the system in the least.

Once downloaded, we double-click on the package to begin the installation. On the first screen it will give us a choice if we want to do a normal or portable installation. The recommended thing is to make it normal.

In the next window it will ask us about the installation directory and some other parameters. If we want the skins that we have entered to be shown at the start of Windows, we will have to choose that this program starts when the computer starts up. With this, the installation process will be completed and the first skin will appear on our desktop to welcome us

Before closing it, we can take advantage of this to access different websites where we can download personalized skins. To do this we click on “ Finding Skins ”

Run Rainmeter Windows 10 and main option

Once the program has started, we will identify it by running in the background in the right area of the taskbar with the icon of a drop of water. If we click, we will open its interface which will be in perfect clear Spanish.

Add or remove Rainmeter skins from the desktop

The first thing we will have to learn is to add skins to the desktop. To do this we go to the "Skins" tab and just below are the packages that we have downloaded. Initially we will only have one with the name " illustro"

If we click on “ active skins ” a list of those that we have placed on the desktop will appear. If we click on any of them, it will open just below the package tree to show where they are located.

We are going to add some that are not yet, for example, a skin that monitors our network. We go to " Network " and display its directory. Now right-click on the icon with the gear wheel with extension ".ini" and choose " Load "

To remove it we just have to select it again with the right button and click on " Download"

Additional customization options

In addition to removing and powering skins, we can also make adjustments to them. We must indicate that not all have the same settings, since this will depend on the author and how he has made it.

To open your options are placed on the skin on the desktop and right-click to open them.

Variants: in this tab will appear possible variants to this skin that the car has designed. : The next option will be to directly access other skins in the package and activate or deactivate them without having to open the program. Settings: the most interesting and useful option. We can configure its position, transparency and other options such that it is not draggable or that it does not respond when left clicked. This is very useful so that it does not interfere with our work on the desktop, in this way we will only have it as an informative element.

Edit skin: with this option we will directly open the.ini file to edit its parameters. It is for advanced users, or who want to experiment with its parameters. This is Rainmeter's true power in terms of customization. Download Skin: we can also remove the skin from the desktop with this option.

All these options will also be in the program interface.

Save an outline to skins

When we have our fully customized desktop, what we want to do is save this configuration in case we lose it, reinstall Windows or try other skins. To store the current Rainmeter configuration we do the following:

We go to the " Designs " tab of the main program, write a name and click " Save "

With this simple action the design will be saved. When we want to load any of those that we have saved, we will go to the list on the right and click on " Load"

Download skins for Rainmeter Windows 10

Already in the eating of this article we saw that from the welcome skin we could access different websites where to download skins for Rainmeter Windows 10:

Install skins

Usually when we download a skin package, it will come in the appropriate format for direct installation in the program. We will know this immediately if the icon of this package is a drop of green color with the extension " .mskin"

The only thing we will have to do in this case is double click on it and the package will be installed automatically in the program directory, which will be:

C: \ Users \ \ Documents \ Rainmeter \ Skins

If, on the other hand, the file that we have downloaded is not directly installable, we will have to create a package for it. For this we will do the following:

We open Rainmeter and in the " Skins " tab we click on " Create a.rmskin package " We put the attributes of author name and version To select a.ini extension file that is skin we give " Add skin " Then we click on " Add custom folder ”and click on the ellipsis to find the location of our skin file.

Then click on " Add " and in the first window click on " Next " We choose the path where to save the installable file and click on " Create package "

In this way we will have created an installable skin package.

With these points we already know practically all the basics to start customizing our desktop. It is your turn to explore its different options to create skins or modify the ones you download.

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