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How Do I Install Rainmeter Apps Test

Rainmeter is the best known and most popular desktop customization program for Windows.

Enhance your Windows computer at home or work with skins; handy, compact applets that float freely on your desktop. Rainmeter skins provide you with useful information at a glance. It’s easy to keep an eye on your system resources, like memory and battery power, or your online data streams, including email, RSS feeds, and weather forecasts.

How to download and install Rainmeter skins. You can download the lastest version of Rainmeter here. There are thousands of skins available to he. Jump to Installing a Skin - Download a 'skin'. By the Rainmeter terminology, skins can be compared with widgets. Skins come in many styles, most new. Click on the skin to install the skin. The installation window is a single-click job.

Many skins are even functional: they can record your notes and to-do lists, launch your favorite applications, control your media player – all in a clean, unobtrusive interface that you can rearrange and customize to your liking.

There are thousands and thousands of skins available, crafted by a large and ever-growing community of Rainmeter users.

Rainmeter is not just an application, it is a robust toolkit.

Create and modify your own skins in a simple language that’s easy to learn, with the help of our extensive documentation, getting started guide and skin tutorials. Skins call upon measures, a set of powerful built-in modules that do all the heavy lifting, and create interactive meters to display that information however you decide. In this way, Rainmeter brings productive innovation together with creative artistry like no other platform of its kind.

Rainmeter is a community.

People in our forums are always happy to help you get started or answer questions. Over the last few years, a thriving community has built up around Rainmeter, as average users freely contribute their own original skins, their generous knowledge and support, and their inspirational ideas to a project whose scope and capabilities are constantly expanding.

Rainmeter is designed for YOUR system.

Rainmeter uses very little CPU and RAM resources, has a tiny space footprint, and will run perfectly well on any hardware using Windows 7 through Windows 10.

Rainmeter is free and open source.

Rainmeter is open source software distributed free of charge under the terms of the GNU GPL v2 license. If you want to get involved, check the Rainmeter GitHub repository.

Rainmeter will run on Windows 7 (Service Pack 1 and Platform Update required) and above.To install Rainmeter, download the latest final or beta version from rainmeter.net, then follow the instructions below.If you are reinstalling or updating Rainmeter, you do not need to uninstall your existing copy before continuing. Your settings, skins and plugins will be preserved.

Standard Installation

The standard installation is recommended for most users. Simply run the installer and follow the instructions.

The installation will do the following:

• Install the program to the default or selected Destination folder.
• Create a Windows file association for the .rmskin file extension and the Rainmeter Skin Installer.
• Create Windows Start menu item for Rainmeter.
• Create Windows Start menu item for Startup/Rainmeter, so Rainmeter starts with Windows. This may be disabled by unchecking Launch Rainmeter on startup.
• Launch Rainmeter at the end of the installation.

Skins and settings folders will be created in the default file locations when Rainmeter is first run.

Note: Rainmeter can be uninstalled using the Add or Remove programs function in Windows.

Default File Locations

Program folder:
C:Program FilesRainmeter

Skins folder:
C:UsersYourNameDocumentsRainmeterSkins¹

Settings and Layouts folder:
C:UsersYourNameAppdataRoamingRainmeter¹

1. “YourName” is an example.

Portable Installation

To run Rainmeter from a single folder, so it can be copied to another computer or run directly from a removable drive, select Portable installation during the install process and browse to the desired installation folder. No changes to the Windows Registry or Start menu will be made. All program, skins and settings folders and files will remain in the selected program folder.