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Rainmeter can help you customize your Windows desktop in the way you like. It is an open source software with an active community, where you can discover tons of skins created and shared by its users, to achieve the effects you want.
- Rainmeter skins. Rainmeter Features. Rainmeter Skins uses very little hardware resources and will run perfectly well on any PC using Microsoft Windows 7 through Windows 10. Create and modify your own rainmeter skins in a simple language that's easy to learn. Rainmeter is not just an application, it is also a robust toolkit.
- Get that MacOS BIG SUR look on Windows 10 easily. This might not look identical but at least it won't kill your PC. Everything used in the tutorial is free.
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Rainmeter allows you to display customizable skins on your desktop, from hardware usage meters to fully functional audio visualizers. You are only limited by your imagination and creativity. Rainmeter is open source software distributed free of charge under the terms of the GNU GPL v2 license.
You can download the latest version of Rainmeter on its official website.
Rainmeter Skin Dashboard
After launching the Rainmeter software, it will stay in the system tray, and we can click its icon to open the dashboard.
Let’s first take a look at the Rainmeter dashboard. It is made up of three parts.
Skin list: The leftmost column is a list of available desktop widgets, which is organized in a tree structure. There are thousands of skins available in the Rainmeter community. A skin can be just about anything. From weather forecasts to RSS feeds to system management and everything in-between.
Status bar (upper part on the right): We can choose to enable or disable, refresh and edit the component here. We can also view related information such as the author and version of the skin.
Skin Settings (lower part on the right): We can set the position and transparency of the component on the desktop here. It is worth noting that we can uncheck “Draggable” to fix the widget in a set position, so as to avoid being accidentally dragged.
Install New Widgets
We can get the packages of Rainmeter skins from some of these communities:
https://www.deviantart.com/rainmeter/gallery/23941137/skins
https://visualskins.com/
https://rainmeterhub.com/
The downloaded package may have two formats, the first kind end with “.rmskin”, and the other is the file directory format. For the file ending with “.rmskin”, you can directly double-click to run it, and then the widget will be automatically added to the “Component List”.
For the the kind in file directory format, we need to manually copy it to the local directory where the Rainmeter widget is located. Usually, the location of this directory is “Documents> Rainmeter> Skins”. After that, go back to the panel, click on “Refresh All”, and then it will be displayed in the list.
After installation, we can select the corresponding “.ini” file, and then click “Load” at the top right to load it on the desktop. When a widget is loaded on the desktop, use the mouse to drag it to a suitable position. Here is a little trick, we can use the left button of the mouse to select and hold a widget on the screen, and then use the arrow keys to move the widget more precisely.
Demos
Big Sur by fediaFedia
Flame Desktop by Urim Berisha
Official Documentation For Advanced Users
If you have development experience, you can write your own desktop skin. Rainmeter has an official document that can help you – https://docs.rainmeter.net/tips/.
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MacOS Big Sur version has been officially announced at the last WWDC conference. This version will change the user interface completely different from the previous version. Including widgets similar to iOS 14, which helps users to quickly access applications or install them without having to open them directly from the browser. And you can completely bring the look of macOS Big Sur to Windows 10 with the Rainmeter tool. Rainmeter is a widget creation software that Network Administrator has instructed you to read before. And in this article you will learn more ways to bring macOS Big Sur interface to Windows 10.
1. How to bring widgets macOS Big Sur to Windows 10
Step 1:
First of all, you install the Rainmeter tool from the link below and then proceed to install as usual. Then download the Big Sur interface zip file according to the link below. Note you must create a Deviantart account.
- https://www.rainmeter.net/
- https://www.deviantart.com/fediafedia/art/Big-Sur-BETA-3-for-Rainmeter-846882462
Step 2:
Then unzip the Big Sur interface zip file, access the folder and click on the BigSur file , click Install in the displayed interface.
Step 3:
Now display Big Sur BETA 3 for Rainmeter interface, if you want bright background, turn off Dark mode. Then click Apply Theme to install the interface on the computer.
Our result has been widgets similar to macOS Big Sur. You can adjust, add widgets to the interface by pressing the plus sign as shown below.
Step 4:
We select the widget displayed on the computer screen through the items as shown below.
Once added, if you don’t want to use it anymore, right-click and choose Close to hide the widget.
2. How to use Rainmeter Widget on Windows
Step 1:
You download the Rainmeter Widget tool for Windows according to the link below.
- https://www.rainmeter.net/
Step 2:
Click on the file downloaded to your computer to proceed with the installation. At the first interface you click to select the Standard installation (recommended) installation mode . The installation will take place shortly after.
Step 3:
When activating Rainmeter Widget, we will immediately see widgets pre-installed on the computer screen including System Resources, Memory, Energy etc …
Step 4:
To add another widget right-click on an available widget and select illustro . Select the function you want to use for widgets such as data source, Google search, forecast, …
Rainmeter Big Sur Skin
Then we will see the display of additional widgets as shown. The widgets displayed on the screen will be checked for easy control by the user.
Step 5:
Besides, you can further customize some interfaces in Rainmeter such as display position, disable mouse when pointing to widget, opacity, move widget freely, … Right-click on existing widget and select Settings and will see a list of custom items.
The interface on the desktop will now be refreshed by widgets created by Rainmeter Widgets tool. You can customize what information appears on the screen or change the look of those widgets.
Big Sur Rainmeter Skin Download
See more:
- How to use Windows Tweaker 5 to customize Windows
- How to let the computer “greet” you when logging in on Windows 7 / 8.1 / 10
- How to add Shutdown to the right-click menu on Windows 10
Big Sur Rc1 For Rainmeter
I wish you all success!