Rainmeter is a free open source platform that allows skins to run on the desktop. 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 the best known and most popular desktop customization program for Windows. Enhance your Windows computer at home or work with skins; handy, compact applets that float freely on your desktop. Rainmeter skins give you useful information at a glance. It’s easy to monitor your system resources, like memory and battery power, or your online data streams, including email, RSS feeds, and weather forecasts.

Many skins are even functional: they can record your notes and to-do lists, launch your favorite apps, and control your media player, all in a clean, unobtrusive interface that you can rearrange and customize to your liking. Rainmeter is both an application and a set of tools.

Rainmeter is open source software that is distributed free of charge under the terms of the GNU GPL v2 license.

Rainmeter 4.5.15 (Revision 3678) changelog:

Fixed

• WifiStatus: Fixed an issue with a missing Windows .dll file that could cause Windows Server systems to crash.
• Histogram / Line Meters: Fixed some issues with MinValue / MaxValue applying correctly to meters.

Change

• Action: In debugging mode, display a warning log message when MinValue and MaxValue are equal or if MaxValue is less than MinValue.
• Platform Detection: The “Version” value used for the About/Release dialog and the registry has been changed to display the non-numeric “Display Version” above the “ReleaseId” of the registry. (for example: 21H2 instead of 2009). In addition, detection of “Windows Server 2022” was added.
• Languages: Updated localization strings for Finnish, Portuguese (Brazil), and Italian.

Additional

• SysInfo: Added “SysInfoType = OS_PRODUCT_NAME”. This retrieves “ProductName” from the “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion” registry. Note that this entry is currently incorrect on all versions of Windows 11, and Rainmeter will correct this and return the appropriate value.

Changes in v4.5.16.3687:

• Rainmeter – Fixed some crash issues caused by version 4.5.15.
• Fixed – NowPlaying: Fixed crash issue and SetPosition issue.
• Changed – Languages: Updated localization strings for Ukrainian and Arabic.
• Changed: Plugins: Only log the upload and download of plugins in debug mode.

Download: Rainmeter 4.5.16.3687 | 2.4MB (open source)
View: Rainmeter Home Page | Rainmeter 4.5 Release Notes

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