Re: What do you think about Rainmeeter - AWESOME SKIN for Windows
what is this is it some kind of a game or a windows? or theme.. well by they way the graphics are awesome.. 
It's either a shell replacement or a desktop overlay. They both do basically the same thing. A shell replacement would overwrite or replace system files to make the desktop customisable, whereas a desktop overlay just covers up the desktop with something else and is less permanent. I think Rainmeter is the latter of the two.
Years ago when I used HoverDesk (an older desktop overlay that seems to have vanished from the web), my desktop looked like this:
http://www.teamhellspawn.com/newdesktop2.gif
Think that's from 2004, so about a decade ago now. Just before everyone stopped using Internet Explorer and hardly anyone had widescreen monitors, heh.
Actually Windows 8 has some Rainmeter coding , for example the Metro Skin is exactly what Rainmeter is doing , i read on a forum that Windows 9 will use more Rainmeter functions , like makeing any fullscreen aplication run in a window etc.