Rainmeter

[smiths]

A program for desktop customization to the next level. It takes quite a while to get used to it. I have been playing around with it for an hour and have just managed to moderately figure it out - there are manuals though which you can read though.

The website has some pretty awesome examples of what can be done, its all real time and doesn't make the system run slow.

All I have accomplished so far is moving some buttons around my desktop and had a play around with a few themes.

http://rainmeter.net/RainCMS/

 

[Jabso]

I had a go at it but it's probably too customisable, too many things get in the way and you'd want a clean desktop to go with it. You'd probably have resource problems when it comes to things like running games.

 

[gimp!]

I have had a play around with it... I like it. Happened to get the weather working for melbourne? I don't know how!

 

[smiths]

For the weather, depending on what theme you use you will need the msn/yahoo location code for Melbourne which can be found on the msn/yahoo websites. Then open the theme configuration and copy in the code.

 

[smiths]

^

msn & yahoo code (they are the same): ASXX0075

Also you may need to change the temperature to Celsius.

 

[IanG]

I had a go at it but it's probably too customisable, too many things get in the way and you'd want a clean desktop to go with it. You'd probably have resource problems when it comes to things like running games.

Its not a resource hog, you'd use more resources running Win7 gadgets.