I was completely dumbfounded when I saw this...

[Sweet Tooth]

I have 3GB of RAM. So if it works for you, hopefully it works for me!

 

[zekramcross]

ok i am currently installin lets hope nothing goes wrong. (My computer has a history taking turns for the worst)

 

[mickey megabyte]

i've got a couple of simple skins here (the big one is home-made) - and they only eat up 20MB.

 

[Sweet Tooth]

ok i am currently installin lets hope nothing goes wrong. (My computer has a history taking turns for the worst)

Mine does, too. Coming from the person who was only given the options of reformatting, reinstalling manufacturer's software, backing up data or doing a combination of these upon startup this morning. Gotta be more careful about what I do with this thing.

 

[zekramcross]

Ok... um.. it didn't do anything and I don't know how to work with it can someone please tell me how? Thank you!

 

[mickey megabyte]

rainmeter 101

you learn more if you try to figure it yourself.

 

[zekramcross]

This is somewhat intresting and confusing because can't you make windows system tray and windows transparent?

 

[mickey megabyte]

...only with aero.

rainmeter doesn't affect window transparency, and only adds a system tray icon.

the overlaid rainmeter graphics on top of your wallpaper are not proper windows. rainmeter just 'prints' them onto the desktop.

 

[zekramcross]

so basically I have a taskbar ontop of a taskbar...
Well.. I thought you could make it transparent since you said that Aero is not involved...

 

[mickey megabyte]

are you talking about the default skin? you can get rid of that and load another one. google for something you like the look of, save it to your skins folder, then right-click on the rainmeter icon in the system tray and select the skin from the config menu.

the website tutorial is pretty good.

or the program's help file - right-click system tray icon and choose 'help'.

 

[zekramcross]

No not that one i'm talking about windows taskbar and windows i want to make that transperant with this program.

 

[mickey megabyte]

you can't. it doesn't do that. you need to activate aero, if your pc/gfx can handle it.

it's like saying i want internet explorer to make a cup of tea. that's not what it does.

 

[zekramcross]

Well i've been down that road already... No need for explanation there.... anyways I think I'll just try and play with it some more hopefully I don't screw up something important. =P

 

[mickey megabyte]

have fun playing!

 

[zekramcross]

Oh god I screwed up good this program is not responding(like I said this computer can't handle that much nowadays) and I will now reinstall the program again... Oh God I love my computer and how it runs.

 

[mickey megabyte]

more ram might help - ram is cheap too

 

[zekramcross]

Do you know any cheap ones that are 1GB each my mobo only supports at best 2 GB of RAM

 

[mickey megabyte]

use google to find a supplier in your area, then speak to them on the phone to make sure you order the right part.

 

[zekramcross]

Ok will do then and by the way the program just won't run anymore it just gave up I guess... That outa give you an idea on how old it is... the computer that is

 

[mickey megabyte]

ok - it wasn't for you.