Thursday 24 May 2012

Stylize Your Desktop With Rainmeter

Windows does not come with a lot of customization options concerning the look of your desktop. Everyone likes to give a personalized look to their computer, but unfortunately Windows won't help you much in this regard. There is a great third-party application called Rainmeter, after installing which you can get any Rainmeter theme that suits you best. The application won't make changes to your system files so the taskbar and window appearance doesn't change.

 The first thing you need to do is download Rainmeter from rainmeter.net. You'll find a stable release and a beta  version, download the one you're comfortable with. After installing you can download themes from rainmeter.net or try these sites:
Both of these sites have a huge and great looking collection of themes, wallpapers and other customization stuff. The material at deviantart.com is more polished and the look of the site is great too.

One of the greatest rainmeter themes is Enigma that I'm currently using on my desktop. You can download the theme here. Note that in order to be able to use this theme you must first install rainmeter application. Here's a screenshot of the theme:

Enigma Preview
 The clock that you can see in the middle of the desktop won't come with the Enigma theme. You can download it from here. Here's my customized desktop:

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