Rainmeter

Rainmeter is the most popular desktop customization software for Windows. Enhance your computer with skins, small, handy applets on your computer screen, giving you the most useful information at a glance. It's easy to control system resources such as memory, battery, data streams like email, RSS feed or weather forecast.

A screen customized with Rainmeter

Key features of Rainmeter system monitoring software

• Measure CPU load speed
• Calculate the amount of memory used
• Measure network traffic
• Data related to performance
• Free disk space

As an open source software, Rainmeter is highly customizable, in addition to providing parameters related to the operation of the computer, the application can also customize the screen with many other features thanks to install more available skins.

The default interface of custom software Rainmeter desktop

Rainmeter has many useful skins that can help you to record notes, create to-do lists, launch your favorite applications, control media players and more importantly, you have the right to customize and rearrange them. to your own liking. With thousands of skins available, created by Rainmeter's growing user community, you can create extremely unique computer screens that are suitable for your work.

Edit screens with different skins available in Rainmeter

Rainmeter is not only an application, it also includes a powerful toolkit to create and edit interfaces in simple language, with the help of a wealth of documentation.

Rainmeter uses very little system resources, so it can work well on any hardware from Windows XP to Windows 10. Especially good application support for Vietnamese, helping you easily access and grasp. Rainmeter works better.

The management interface of Rainmeter allows changing skins and themes

Updated in the new version Rainmeter

Rainmeter 4.2

Plugin UsageMonitor

Add the UsageMonitor plugin to interact with the Windows Performance Monitor, monitor a range of system metrics in different categories, and track their usage. This plugin will remove existing AdvancedCPU and PerfMon plugins and replace them afterwards.

Button function

Added a few new buttons, enabling / disabling mouse operation on the ruler or interface interface.

@Vault folder

Additional support for the @Vault folder. This is an automatic directory and utility to save the 32bit and 64bit .dll plugin versions, which you allocate by skin, as well as other sources.

SysInfo plugin

Add a new SysInfoType USER_LOGONTIME value to the SysInfo plugin. This is the timestamp number that reflects the date and time the user account is currently logged into Windows. Use the Time ruler to format a date / time string, or exclude the current time and use the Uptime metric to get the time format string that has passed.

Rainmeter.ini

Change the encoding file of Rainmeter.ini from ANSI to UTF-16 LE (Unicode). Current installations will be converted if needed when Rainmeter starts or loads layouts.

Rainmeter has added the full path to the .ini skin file currently running into the hidden 'title' window of the configuration window. This feature supports plugins written to use SendMessage () to detect if a config is running. If it does, it will use the window title to get the name 'variant' of the running skin.

In addition, Rainmeter 4.2 changes the About / Version dialog box to the version number for Windows 10 (eg 1709, 1803) and the language, the language code is currently used for both Rainmeter and Windows. (e.g. English (1033)). Change the reference to different paths and the Rainmeter.ini file becomes the clickable link.

Other improvements and bug fixes in Rainmeter 4.2

• InputText Plugin: Add InputNumber and InputLimit support when inline commands override the InputText plugin.
• FileView Plugin: Supports related links with the ContextMenu command in the FileView plugin.

Rainmeter 4.2.0 Beta r3018

• The @VaultPlugins folder is now automatically created if it does not exist when Rainmeter starts and is no longer scanned and processed as an external folder in the config list in Manage.
• Added support for modern Spanish
• Plugin AudioLevel: Fix error not counting the value of 'device timeout'

Rainmeter 4.0

• Due to the requirements of Direct2D / DirectWrite graphics, Rainmeter 4.0 no longer supports Windows XP and Vista. Rainmeter only supports Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 and applies Platform Update. You need to turn on the Windows Update function in the default form or you can update manually. In case of using Windows XP or Vista, you can install and use Rainmeter 3 or lower.
• Additional Shape Meter feature to draw shapes with vector graphics, including squares, ellipses, arcs, Bezier curves and lines.
• New Skin dialog box: corresponding to the Create New Skin button in the Mangage section, allows adding the root directory and skin file or adding folders and files to existing skin
• Inline Shadow: Add Inline Shadow settings to the String Meter Inline option to create a shadow effect for all or part of the string.
• Inline String Case: Sets the type of the Lower, Upper, Proper, or Sentence strings for all or part of the displayed content.
• Add the Domain Work Group SysInfo Tyle value to the SysInfo plugin.
• Add the Log SubstringErrors WebParser measurement option.
• Add UserAgent WebParser measurement option to set arbitrary User Agent String.
• Additional types of HTTP headers.
• Automatically select the screen.
• And many other improvements.

In short, the computer utility Rainmeter is not ashamed as the most popular screen customization tool. You can put everything you want on the screen by creating a new skin or downloading the existing skin in Rainmeter skin store.