What is Rainmeter?

Rainmeter is an application for windows that allows you to add a layer to your desktop with any information you want. You can add application launchers and install predefined userskins. There's a decent community which provides new skins all the time.

What does it look like?

The way you want. I designed it to show information about my workstation.

Especially when I'm running a local test environment or compiling things I like to have all the information about my work machine at a glance without popping around the taskmanager and stuff. Rainmeter is highly customizable and quite well performing (as you can see in the screenshot)

To get more information and skins, take a look at

• the homepage
• devian art for skins
• the subreddit where users present their builds