Solar System desktop powered by third-party apps

Dec 27, 2019 09:49 GMT  ·  By

If you’ve been keeping an eye on Microsoft’s work in the Windows 10 customization department lately, you probably noticed that the software giant releases new themes for the operating system in the Microsoft Store every once in a while.

And while themes generally bring several tweaks to a specific product, Microsoft has reinvented this concept in Windows 10, so the themes that it releases to users in the Microsoft Store are nothing more than packs of wallpapers.

In the meantime, users out there keep hoping for more in terms of customizations, and more often than not, they actually achieve an impressive level of desktop tuning with the help of third-party software.

Third-party desktop customizations

This is the case of this Solar System-themed Windows 10 desktop, which has been created with a bundle of tools available free of charge and which anyone can turn to for similar projects.

The apps that you need are Rainmeter (for the desktop skin) and FalconX, which can center the taskbar. The Rainmeter skin for the desktop is available here.

As I said not a long time ago, animated wallpapers or fully-featured themes should make a return to Windows 10 sooner or later, as they give users more customization power on an otherwise dull desktop. While in most of the cases the performance drop is one thing to worry about, the creator of this desktop says their tweaks don’t really slow down the system.

“It requires a maximum 25 MB of memory and uses a maximum 5% of the processor. On an average, it used only 10 MB of memory and less than 2.5% of the processor,” a post on reddit explains.

You can re-create this desktop on your device using the tools and skin mentioned above.