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How to Change Fonts on Rainmeter Skins

Rainmeter is a desktop customization tool which can display customizable skins, like memory and battery power, RSS feeds and weather forecasts, right on your desktop. We can change the skins we like, we also can change the fonts on Rainmeter Skins. Here is the instruction to tell you how to do it.

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1. Start Rainmeter.

2. Click “Configs” and then click on “Manage Skins”.

3. Under the “Rainmeter Configs” panel, click on the “Active” tab. Select one skin and then click on “Edit Skin.”

4. Find the text block that starts with “[Variables].” Insert the following content below the “[Variables]” text block: newfont=”Trebuchet MS” Replace “Trebuchet MS” with the name of the font that you’d like to use. Be sure to enclose it in quotes.

5. Find the line “Meter=.” Insert a blank line below it and then type the following code: FontFace=#newfont#

6. Repeat the previous step for each “Meter=” line that you find.

7. Save the changes and close the text file. Click “Refresh All” to apply the settings.

How to Change Rainmeter Skins

Rainmeter displays customizable skins, like memory and battery power, RSS feeds and weather forecasts, right on your desktop. Many skins are even functional: they can record your notes and to-do lists, launch your favorite applications, and control your media player – all in a clean, unobtrusive interface that you can rearrange and customize to your liking. Here is the instruction to tell you how to change Rainmeter Skins. 123 1. Select the skin you want to install, right click on it and choose “Extract”. 2. Cut and past the new created folder to C:\Documents and Settings\My_User_Name\My Documents\Rainmeter\Skins\ (Windows XP) or C:\Users\My_User_Name\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins(Windows 7 or Vista). 3. Right-click on the taskbar and select “Refresh all.” 4. Open the menu and go to “Configs.” 5. Go to the Configs’s folder you want to install and double-click on the.ini file.

How to Change Windows Media Player Codec

The latest iteration of Windows Media Player adds a lot of useful bells and whistles, succeeding in many ways as a competitor to iTunes for Windows. You could download it here. Windows Media Player can also help users to search for and change the correct type of codec for whatever file you need to play. Here is the instruction to tell you how to do it.

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1. Start Windows Media Player.

2. Locate the left zone, scroll down and click “More Options.”

3. Click “Player—-Automatic Updates”. Keep the box next to “Download codecs automatically” checked.

4. Click “Apply” and “OK” to save the settings. Select the “Library” link and croll down to the specific audio or video file that needs the new codec.

5. Run the file by double clicking it. Wait for a few seconds until the new codec is downloaded. Now you could play the file successfully.