How to install Rainmeter Themes

Have you heard about Rainmeter application which customizes your desktop and gives Metro appearance as in Windows 8? do you wonder how to know how to install Rainmeter skins/themes? First of all to use the rainmeter themes, you need the Rainmeter application. Every Rainmeter theme normally comes with an auto-installer. It is recommended to use this installer to install the skins and themes. However, it is not fully fail-proof, so you should also know how to install the Rainmeter skins manually.

Auto-Installer:

• 1. Extract the contents of your theme somewhere on your hard drive.
• 2. Navigate to the folder and double-click on Rainstaller.exe (might be named differently for other themes)

Manual:

• 1. Extract the contents of your theme somewhere on your hard drive.
• 2. Go to that folder and navigate to the subfolder: Data\Skins\. There you will find the folder W7
• 3. Copy the folder W7
• 4. Navigate to C:\Users\[yourusername*]\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins and paste the folder here!
• 5. Go to the folder we extraced the content to in (1).
• 6. Navigate to the subfolder: Data\Themes\
• 7. Copy the folder [ThemeName*]
• 8. Navigate to C:\Users\[yourusername*]\AppData\Local
• 9. Start Rainmeter (exit it if it was open)
• 10. Right-click on the tray-icon and hover over “Themesâ€: Select [ThemeName*]
• 11. Done!

*[yourusername*] = your PC username

* [ThemeName*] = your Theme name

Questions?

If you have any questions how to install a specific Rainmeter theme, then post a comment and I’ll try to help where I can.

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