New Update Rainmeter 4.5 - Release Notes

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Major additions and changes in Rainmeter 4.2

• UsageMonitor Plug-in - a new UsageMonitor plugin to interact with the Windows Performance Monitor
• Bangs
• @Vault Folder support
• SysInfo Plug-in
• Rainmeter.ini - the file encoding of Rainmeter.ini changed from ANSI to UTF-16 LE (Unicode)
• About Dialog

Read more: Rainmeter 4.2 Release - Rainmeter, desktop customization tool

Note: Rainmeter 4.2 will run on Windows 7 through 10. Windows XP and Vista are not supported.

 

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Rainmeter, desktop customization tool

Rainmeter allows you to display customizable skins on your desktop, from hardware usage meters to fully functional audio visualizers. You are only limited by your imagination and creativity.

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July 31, 2023 - 4.5.18 - Revision 3727

• Game Mode: Show tray icon if all skins are unloaded.
• Game Mode: Allow !Quit bang to work from the command line while in Game Mode.
• Languages: Updated localization strings for Vietnamese, Swedish, Portuguese (Portugal), Estonian, Greek, Hungarian.
• Inline lua: Increase stack size if needed.
• Update Check: Added minimum Windows checking when updating, to prevent Rainmeter from downloading a new Rainmeter version that is incompatible with the users system.
• Mouse Actions: Fix skin meter MouseLeaveAction being delayed when skin is draggable and global dragging is disabled
• Manage Dialog: Fix dialog global draggable checkbox not updating state when toggling via tray icon.
• Default illustro Suite: Update Network.ini. Code change provided by user nek7u.
• Rainmeter: Fix cursor changing to a hand when a meter has a mouse wheel action. Code change provided by user Joehuu.
• Rainmeter: Fixed an issue with OnWakeAction on systems that utilize Connected Standby.
• WiFi Status: Added WiFiInfoType support for Wifi 7 (802.11be).
• Skin Installer: Fixed an issue where 64-bit plugins were installed when a 32-bit version of Rainmeter was installed on 64-bit version of Windows.

Release Notes:: Rainmeter 4.5 Changes - Rainmeter, desktop customization tool

Full history: Version History - Rainmeter Docs

 

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April 11, 2025 - 4.5.22 - Revision 3835

• Added: Rainmeter Plugin API: Added the ability for 3rd-party plugins, either C++ or C#, to access the string or number/formula value of any [SectionName] option.
  See C++ API reference or C# API reference for details.
• Fixed: Rainmeter: Fixed a problem with Windows 11 version 24H2 or later, that didn't allow Rainmeter skins to remain visible when the WIN-D (Show Desktop) function of Windows was used.

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April 12, 2025 - 4.5.23 - Revision 3836

• Changed: Rainmeter Build: Downgraded the version of NSIS, the software that is used to create the Rainmeter installer .exe from 3.11.0 to 3.10.0. This is to address some "false positive" hits with some antivirus applications that MAY have been caused by the very recent 3.11.0 version of NSIS.

Rainmeter 4.5 Changes - Rainmeter, desktop customization tool

Rainmeter allows you to display customizable skins on your desktop, from hardware usage meters to fully functional audio visualizers. You are only limited by your imagination and creativity.

www.rainmeter.net