Rainmeter is a third-party app that lets you customize your desktop from top to bottom. Whether you want to use a new look, theme, or widget, you can do that with the help of the Rainmeter app.

Rainmeter uses “skins” to display information on your Windows desktop. It’s not unlike the old widgets Microsoft introduced with Windows Vista, except those were hard coded and fairly basic.

Rainmeter, the desktop customization tool that's behind most Featured Desktops and slick things like a Windows Phone 7-style HUD, has an official home at community site deviantART, providing feeds ...