Customise your desktop with widgets
Rainmeter is a free, open-source desktop customisation tool for Windows. It displays "skins" — small widgets on your desktop that can show the time, weather, CPU and memory usage, disk space, music now playing, RSS feeds, app launchers and much more.
Thousands of free skins and complete themes are shared by the community, ranging from minimal clocks to full desktop makeovers. Skins are lightweight and use very few resources. If you enjoy tinkering, you can edit skins or create your own with Rainmeter's simple text-based configuration language.
Getting a polished look takes some time choosing and arranging skins, and creating your own skins requires reading the documentation. For anyone who wants a personal, information-rich desktop, Rainmeter is the most popular tool of its kind.
Pros
- Thousands of free skins
- Lightweight
- Highly customisable
Cons
- Setup takes time to get right