Rainmeter skins can be found on, the developer site where the compiled program and source code can be found, on DeviantArt, and on. It is totally unobtrusive and never slows the system down, even with the fair amount of animation from the meters. The memory monitor shows free and used memory and adjusts as I open and close apps.Īll of this is courtesy of an app that occupies 48KB of memory on my 16GB system. The C: drive monitor tells me the capacity of the drive and also has a small meter for activity, so spikes in activity are clearly displayed. To the right of the CPU skins is the C: drive monitor and below that the memory monitor. Again, this is a good way of catching unusual or suspect behavior if there is a massive spike in activity. It doesn't tell me what app is doing it, I need to go into the Task Manager for that, but it does give me a first warning of strange activity.īelow the CPU meters are the network traffic meters, one for uploads and one for downloads. I look at the meters and see if one or more are maxed, which would indicate a program running full out and hogging the CPU. This proves helpful if there is a slowdown or strange behavior in my system. It's hard to tell but the skins also report the core temperature, which only works if you are running the system monitoring utility SpeedFan. My system is a quad core Intel processor, so with hyperthreading I needed all 8 meters to monitor activity. On the upper right you see eight CPU core meters, and below that the up/down network traffic meters. There are other customizable RSS feeds but I like this one best.īelow that is an image display that changes pictures every 10 seconds, and underneath that is a weather skin, with data from The Weather Channel. I find myself clicking on news items multiple times per day.

The left side features three RSS feeds, all of which load in the browser if you click on the headline. (No, I don't run a black background, I just changed it for the sake of this posting.) Andy Patrizio

I put them in the corners and Outlook sits open in the middle between the two groups of skins. Monitor two is where most of the skins reside. A lot of Rainmeter complete sets are designed for a single monitor, but you can also get individual pieces and mix and match to suit your own display. I use two 24' monitors on my work/personal system, which gives me plenty of screen real estate.

Rainmeter desktop