
If it is, then you can carefully copy back skins and plugins, testing between to make sure that a misbehaving skin or plugin wasn't the cause of the issue in the first place.
Install Rainmeter using the downloaded installer.īe sure Rainmeter is working correctly and loading the default illustro suite of skins. Delete the Rainmeter shortcut icon from the Windows Startup folder:Ĭ:\Users\ YourName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartupĬ:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp. Rainmeter settings, Layouts and 3rd-party plugins:Ĭ:\Users\ YourName\Appdata\Roaming\Rainmeter it contains skins such as a clean visualizer, system monitoring, a minimally designed weather skin, a clock, launcher and will also contain a settings skin. Completely delete the following folders: Titillium Rainmeter skin is a very minimalistic rainmeter skin that features a simple yet elegant style of skinning. We want to get really "clean", so ensure the following: Note: This will likely leave behind some traces of Rainmeter that were added or changed after the initial installation. Use the "Add or Remove Programs" functionality in Windows to uninstall the Rainmeter program.
Download a fresh copy of the installer from.Note: If you want to save any skins you have created or installed, first copy somewhere else the files in:Ĭ:\Users\ YourName\Documents\Rainmeter\SkinsĬ:\Users\ YourName\AppData\Roaming\Rainmeter\Plugins Clean Install If Rainmeter is misbehaving for you, which might be due to some file corruption on your system, or a file "ownership" issue if you have restored Rainmeter from a backup of a different OS or computer, you might want to do a "clean" installation of Rainmeter.