The Rainmeter program IS installed in "Program Files" by default; that folder is never used for your skins or settings.When downloading the latest version of rainmeter from rainmeter.net, i begin the installation process and upon finishing, I get an error stating : There are no available skins at : C://Users\1723\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins\. Furthermore, when installing the Mond skin at : https://visualskins.com/skin/mond, it begins installing and never finishes.
From reading the forums, Rainmeter is initially installed in program files(which doesn't allow writes) but a folder should be created for skins under the user documents folder for this. However, a folder isn't created here and even after manually creating the Rainmeter/Skins folder, I still get the error message from above. The default skin Illustro isn't even on rainmeter.
All files for settings and skins, that require read/write privileges, are located in your "User" folders.
BTW it should be in "C:\Users\{yourusername}\Appdata\Roaming\Rainmeter\" for all settings
and "C:\Users\{yourusername}\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins\" for all of your installed skins.
I would first recommend you download a new copy of Rainmeter from https://www.rainmeter.net/. The installation should finish and open the illustro skins when Rainmeter is started.
If you get an error when installing, then something other than Rainmeter is causing issues for you.
I would recommend NOT USING "Visualskins" as a source for skins; it is not maintained and most skins from there are old variants; the Mond skin from there has many issues... try this updated version: Mondtholomew
Statistics: Posted by eclectic-tech — Yesterday, 11:18 pm