Reviews of Rainmeter

1. 
   sgtevmckay

   Reviewing 1.1 (Nov 2, 2009)

   Greetings folks
   
   Actually there is not one thing here that folks can not be done, that can be done with Rainmeter.
   
   Multi-Core or Multi-thread CPU measures...Been there done that
   32 HDD Monitoring...Nothing but a thing
   Color coding for Characters...Please
   
   No Rainmeter is not for everyone, and it is an advanced program, but anyone can learn
   
   Come see what I am talking about at the Rainmeter forums
   Rainmeter.net
2. 
   anomoly

   Reviewing 1.1 (Nov 2, 2009)

   This has replaced rainlendar, and coolmon. The extra added functionality with rainlendar I never really used anyways.
   It's not portable but it does work well, is very unobtrusive, and uses fewer resources while getting more done.
   
   To add Hdd's 4, 5, etc., see this post:
   http://rainmeter.net/for...1799&p=13154#p13154
3. 
   anomoly

   Reviewing 1.0 (Aug 10, 2009)

   This has matured to a very useable state. Very easy to configure and some great looks. However, I found fonts too small and a black or white font color is apparently the only choice. Don't know if skins solve this but I would guess they might.
   Sticking with plain old rainlendar & coolmon until I find a suitable skin or can solve the font issues. BTW, cpu was actually less than rainlendars or ~ the same.
   What's nice is no matter what you want it to do it all takes place from a single exe. Try find another free simple ap that can display ip info that doesn't require developer skills (samurize); there aren't any (coolmon being the exception).
   TRS?? That's a joke. Though I do have it. It still has options for Win9x which nobody uses & wouldn't know an ip addy from an email addy.
4. 
   Targaff

   Reviewing 1.0 (Aug 10, 2009)

   It's a shame that some people, by which I mean dhry, are apparently incapable of conceiving that download size does not equal actual size; anyone who had actually tried the app would have easily been able to determine that the download includes the entire VC redistributable, weighing in at some 4MB in size, and that Rainmeter itself itself is actually only just over 400k for the .exe and library (the remainder of the download is themes and addons). The only reasonable conclusion is that those users have not in fact bothered to try the tool and are just mouthing off because it's not their preferred tool. That's a shame, because while TRM is a handy little tool if all you want is a brief summary of system information, Rainmeter is far, far more flexible in what it can achieve, effectively providing a small but powerful widget engine. I'd like to see TRM display your torrent downloads on the desktop - it seems some users can't understand the convenience of this - or the weather (for which a 4MB+ download is apparently a-okay, mark you), or a planetarium, or live global event updates. Oh, and it can give you system info, if that's all you want.
   
   Be that as it may, however, for an app that's been moribund for so long the new updates are incremental only; as Zen points out, much has changed in the meantime, and Rainmeter needs to step up and address those changes, otherwise it's never going to be anything more than a polished relic.
5. 
   ZenWarrior

   Reviewing 1.0 (Aug 9, 2009)

   I can only assume the author hasn't purchased a new computer in a few years and/or is totally unaware that almost all PCs now have multiple cores. Reporting a single value for CPU usage on a quad-core machine is a major show-stopper, at least for me when I've needed to know what's occurring on different cores all too many times to properly assign affinities. Uninstalled and deleted.

Discuss Rainmeter

1. Nov 2, 2009 - 10:30 PM
   sgtevmckay

   Time for discussion.
   What is there that you believe that Rainmeter can not do?