Or you can download the skins created by someone else. You can find a lot of good skins available online. People from the Rainmeter community usually distribute their work for free.

If you want to customize your Windows desktop, it doesn't get much better than Rainmeter. RainmeterHub is a new site that lets you browse and download new skins for your killer setup. If you've ...

The group behind Rainmeter, all volunteers who work on the app through an open source project on SourceForge, have released version 3.1, and for a point release it’s got some major updates.

Skins and suites are then installed by the user with just a double click or directly from a download site in their browser. Rainmeter 1.2 has a host of improvements to better support Windows 7.