I've always been reluctant to use custom widgets, dashboards, and skins on my Windows PC. I always thought they took more system resources than they're worth. But after getting burnt out by scattered ...

A great tool for creating interactive desktop customizations. You may have heard of Rainmeter, the desktop customization tool that lets you display all kinds of information on your PC desktop in a ...

You may have heard that Windows 7 widgets and other desktop gadgets could go the way of the dodo in Windows 8. According to Microsoft, you shouldn’t even be using desktop gadgets in Windows 7 or Vista ...

Over the years, Microsoft Windows has offered customization elements we loved. Some of the bits we loved aren't available anymore: desktop widgets in Windows Vista and the Windows Aero theme that may ...

Windows only: Rainmeter configuration StockMarketWatch embeds a widget on the desktop to track your favorite stocks—and unlike most sidebar widgets, this one is ...