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Rainmeter

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You need moar clocks.
You need moar clocks.

Rainmeter is a performance meter that can display CPU, the mp3 you are playing, the porn you are watching, what your sister is doing, your hard drives, your IP number, the local news, your mom, what Google has to say about your mom, the latest changes made to your blog, your network traffic, where the best torrents are being uploaded, your CPU temperature, RSS feeds, funny pictures, your bandwidth, a WEP indicator, text that you want your desktop to say, HTML links, program shortcuts, and the time. Just because it can display all of these things, you will probably try to use them all.


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What Rainmeter Really Is

I really need to see if it is raining or sunny outside...better check Rainmeter.
I really need to see if it is raining or sunny outside...better check Rainmeter.
Skinners will use other obnoxious applications along with Rainmeter.  These include various dock software and Mac OS.
Skinners will use other obnoxious applications along with Rainmeter. These include various dock software and Mac OS.

Rainmeter is a snobby application where the average Windows user can attempt to make his PC’s desktop look like a flavor of Linux. It is a total failure at it and the whole concept of putting various informational widgets on your desktop has evolved into who can use the most configurations of the skin called HUD.Vision on their desktop at once. Seriously, if you really want a bunch of shit on your desktop, why not use the Windows sidebar that comes with every installation of Vista?

Using Rainmeter

Skinners, people who try to modify the look and feel of their Windows installation, will post their version of their desktop in a desktop thread and then their post will be followed by at least three hundred requests for what kind of Rainmeter configuration they are using. This is usually followed by another three hundred replies stating that the OP is using HUD.Vision and that everybody needs to lrn2internet.


Editing your Configuration

 
 
Wow, this is a great skin...How can I make it actually show my town's weather? It's stuck on Stockholm.
 

 

—Seasoned Rainmeter Specialist.

You are better off just downloading HUD.Vision and forgetting about changing your configuration files. Most retards that download Rainmeter are pretentious enough to think they can alter the way the files work and end up fucking stuff up anyways, but if you insist on hacking into the configuration files, this is what you will need:

Gallery of Rainmeter

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Links of Interest



Rainmeter
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LERNIN 2 INTERNET

Pitfalls
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Protips
Lern2ED

Pitfalls

Aspierations Charming Naïveté Delete fucking everything Desktop Modding DOING IT WRONG Failing it Flouncing Histrionic personality disorder Internet lawsuit Internet tough guy "Just Google It" Kids on the internet Legal action Liberalism Mental illness Narcissistic personality disorder Offended Scientology (see PROJECT CHANOLOGY) • Skript kiddie Sob Stories Streisand Effect Troll's remorse Trying too hard Unrealistic Expectations Unwarranted Self-Importance Waaaambulance

High Scores

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Protips

An hero Computer Science III Getting the Fuck Out Going Back To Gaia "Just Google It" LURKING MOAR Mod Sass Shutting The Fuck Up Stop Posting

Lern2ED

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