Review: Rainmeter 1.2 (and Gnometer default theme)

Filed under: Utilities, Features, Windows

I have a confession to make: my desktop is completely stock. It's vanilla. There are no weird add-ons and no funky widgets. The only thing "special" about it is that the taskbar is vertical, and it's on the secondary monitor.

This is a testament to the enormous improvement Windows' stock UI has seen over the past few versions. I have been an avid LiteStep user for around ten years, and I've also played around with Blackbox quite a bit. Windows 7 is the first version of Windows that did not offend me visually to the extent that I had to kill Explorer and put in a replacement.

So, now that I like MS's stock offering, where do I turn if I want to add a bit of pizzazz to my system without completely sacrificing all of that default goodness?

Rainmeter is one solid option. It's a tool the desktop-modifying crowd seems to really like, and I can certainly understand why. It's been around for ages, and they've just released version 1.2 -- which I took for a spin. To see what it looks like and what's good (and not so good) about it, keep on reading after the fold.

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