Separate skins not to be treated as variants must be stored in separate folders. Only one variant can be active at a time, and all variants use the same settings. files, they are each considered variants of the same skin. If a single folder contains multiple SkinName1.ini, SkinName2.ini. SkinName.ini in its own named folder within Skins, as in: Rainmeter\Skins\ SkinFolder\ SkinName.ini.Īll of these folder paths may be referenced in a skin as built-in-variables. The Skins folder can also be changed in Rainmeter's settings.Ī skin is stored as a named. If Rainmeter is installed as a portable application, the Skins folder is found in the installation folder. If Rainmeter has been installed normally, the default location of the Skins folder is:Ĭ:\Users\ YourName\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins Files and FoldersĪll skins are stored in Rainmeter's 'Skins' folder. Each skin is generally stored and loaded as an independent, self-contained module. Rainmeter includes utilities for publishing and installing 3rd-party skins. Skins come with many different sizes, styles, user interfaces, and levels of complexity. A skin is a movable, dynamic, sometimes-interactive window that appears over the Windows desktop, and usually gathers and displays information of some kind. Rainmeter's basic purpose is to run skins.