Saturday, July 23, 2016

Rainmeter


6-2023 I now use only a few thing from Enigma
processes
system
network
hard drives

to fix LAN showing actual IP do this

open Network.inc (not .ini)

Change SysInfoData=1 to 0
[MeasureLAN]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=SysInfo
SysInfoType=IP_ADDRESS
SysInfoData=0


I have used a basic black screen for years. I "advanced" to my favorite black leather wallpaper awhile back. Lately I decided to dig up Rainmeter and I must say, as much as I hate screen gadgets, Rainmeter can provide some useful functionality. I also can not stick with a dock for any length of time but am giving RocketDock another shot. I could use Rainmeter launchers but they are a pain to set up.

One thing that stumped me for awhile is installing the skins. The downloaded skins have names like Enigma4Patch1.rmskin but if you are using Rainmeter portable the rmskin extension is not registered to run. Go to the Rainmeter program folder to get access to Skininstaller.exe.


Just drag/drop the rmskin file onto the Skinstaller.exe and the install will perform.

Loading the individual skins is easiest through Manager. Load and Unload here to try things out.


There are many skins and some are so complex that they lose functionality. Weather in most of them seems broken and more work to fix than worth the time. http://win10widgets.com/ works without effort and gets you started. I use weather, volume and WiFi on laptops and only volume on desktops. 

Most skins are sets and you can pick and choose parts. Financial Markets that I use has only two skins but some have many. Some skins have setup skins to manipulate directories and such and some can only be edited in their text setup file. Coming from preferring a blank desktop I am slow to use the skins and most of them will be short lived. But I may keep some of them going..

Right now I use 

I no longer use

Curl, Wget, Winget & Powershell Install or Download Commands

After the mess I made in previous posts this summary might be useful.     Thanks PatchMyPC, the great and powerful program downloader and up...