karmat

karmat

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[quote who="Philly0381" reply="101" id="2875569"]All right, I figured it out. Thanks to Junior Crooks and to karmat for hanging in and replying with the correct information. So, what was the problem I was having, you can say not reading the instructions that were being supplied and one other little minor thing. When unzipping a file the word extraction sometimes makes people do the wrong thing. Just saying. Once I figured it out it was like

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[quote who="Philly0381" reply="90" id="2875022"]Well I'm in the same boat as RedneckDude. I run Windows 7 64 bit and just can't figure this all out. I tried downloading ABP, got no backgrounds. I guess that I just not able to follow the instructions. I download the ABP file, it's zipped so I saved it to a folder and then extracted it to the skins folder under Rainmeter. Was I supposed to do something else? Rai

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Manually = put the folder in C:\Users\Admin\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins (if you're using windows7). Or, if there's a bunch of files/folders in the zip - make a new folder, name it and unzip it to the same place (this is for mostly for older skins - but sometimes people don't package it up in .rmskin format). I would suggest that you go into Windows Explorer and look at the Rainmeter folders that are in C:\Program Files\Rainmeter and get familiar with what's there. Just remember that the

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RND, it's not a case of replacing dx with rainmeter, it's just a different customizing tool to play around with. And you can use both at the same time. Rainmeter gives those of us without photoshop talent a chance to customize our desktops ourselves using code and sometimes graphics. Your dx skins will always be appreciated as they look totally different from rainmeter skins. I would love to see some of your dx graphics mixed into a Rainmeter skin or suite- that would be hot!

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[quote who="Uvah" reply="53" id="2872959"]Cool thing about Rainmeter is Vark. A UI right up front you can build the skin with. Way cool. What I found a little confusing (no surprise for me) was all the different ini's. But if you take your time with them I guess they're okay. A far cry from what it used to be.[/quote] Uvah - Vark's creator did an earlier version called Infinity, which is a single ini, you can get it at http://theumad.deviantart.com/gallery/28043747#/d2s9zje But what I

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[quote who="RedneckDude" reply="50" id="2872408"] That is so cool of you to find out for me. I don't understand why they don't package these things so that they go to the right places, or at least provide clear instructions on how to do it. The instructions I got say to extract the zip to the rainmeter folder in my documents if it isn't a rlskin format. It don't say anything about sorting the files inside the zip.[/quote] RND - <span style="text-de

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[quote who="RedneckDude" reply="48" id="2872259"]I reinstalled with the non beta....same thing...aaaarrrgggghhhhh.[/quote] RND - I asked the author of ABP what might be the cause of your problem. After lookng at the screenshot you provided, he told me... He has RainBrowser opened in which I can clearly see that he hasn't stored ABP in Skins/ABP

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[quote who="WebGizmos" reply="115" id="2863149"]Love that wall JC! Where can I get it if you remember! [/quote] http://us.download.nvidia.com/downloads/cool_stuff/wallpapers/NVArt_IV/1Time_hi_16x12.jpg

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I went ahead and made the skins that had been moderated public. One of the Journeyman skinners had submitted and because they don't go thru moderation it ended up available. So I released the others. Vark would be a good one to try RND. It's set up for beginners to easily get what they need out of it. Vark is great because it's so versatile. My last three screenshots in my gallery have it https://www.wincustomize.com/users/2687090/k

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[quote]Thanks karmat. I'm playing with it too. Takes some getting used to, but is functional![/quote] There is a bit of a learning curve to it, but it's worth it! People just need to do abit of reading and tinkering to get the feel of it. But with all the changes to Rainmeter this year, users can now just download a skin without doing much modifying, but where's the fun in that!

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