VClouds System by VClouds

The Glasses skin suit is available here: [link]

This is the system counterpart of my weather skin [link]

This skin requires Rainmeter 2.1 or higher [link]

Features:
• Includes monitors for: CPU, Memory, 4 Drives, Network, Recycle Bin, Gmail and a Music Player.
• Panel for opening various options easily.
• Semi transparent background (You can change its color and opacity or disable it completely).
• Shine effect that changes color depending on CPU usage.
• Support for Aero Glass (works only on windows 7 and Vista).

* All buttons and graphics were created by me.

Instructions:
Click the button on the upper right corner of the skin to open the panel and click the Settings button.
In the settings utility you need to fill the following fields for the skin to work properly:

Music players (AIMP, Foobar2000, MediaMonkey, MusicBee, iTunes, WinAmp, WMP and more) - Full list here: [link]
Download/Upload speeds (use google to convert to bits)
Drive letters (For example C: )
Gmail user and password
You also have a lot of customization options in there

Updates:
• 1.8.2011 - Added an option to change the background color.
• 8.10.2011 - Big update:
1) Changed font to match VClouds Weather 2
2) Added Shine Effect
3) Tooltips for up to 8 CPU Cores % usage, visible by placing the cursor over the Processor section (see Help file for instructions)
4) Used Memory and Swap info added
5) Gmail - added a notification sound that plays when a new message is received
6) Lots of tweaks and fixes
• 10.4.2012 - A few fixes and changes, some cosmetic changes.

Credits:
poiru [link] - borrowed elements from his great skins.
fediaFedia [link] for the Rainmeter skin config.

See it in action - [link]

ACCPresidentLB Featured By Owner May 12, 2016

Hello VClouds,

First off, let me say this a awesome theme! Don't use all the components, but I did mix them & edit to fit my needs and code & settings features are awesome and easy to use and adjust.
New to editing Rainmeter skins, and came across an unique situation that would make my slideshow awesome. My current background pic has a PC monitor in it and it is slightly angled, therefore its more of a trapezoid than a rectangle. The code has has X, Y, H (height), W (width) values naturally, and I have adjusted H & W for proper sizing, but can't figure out what X & Y are or do, or how I can adjust or create slight angles to make my slideshow fit perfectly on monitor screen. Would you please advise me if and how I can do so?

Thanks so much in advance!
ACCPresidentLB

Atyneton Featured By Owner Feb 24, 2016

How exactly does one change Celsius to Fahrenheit in the code? I'm from the U.S. and really get confused on Celsius.

VClouds Featured By Owner Feb 25, 2016

There are no temperatures in this skin...

Harishchand Featured By Owner Jan 21, 2016

Wow! Just Wow! Great job man!! I'm still new to Rainmeter, figuring out how things are done, and looking for solutions...and when i looked at your work i saw a lot of things i was looking for, it's really helpfull..And I like especially CPU lights, great detail, Christmas time

hehe, tnx and keep up the good work!

VClouds Featured By Owner Jan 22, 2016

Thanks! glad you like it.

Harishchand Featured By Owner Jan 22, 2016

Well nice to see you replied

...hope you can help me with this: i'm looking for a 'original' .png file or whatever windows 7 uses to make aero glass. I want to make identical skins like windows produces. I read about blur=1, and BlurRegion.., and that's ok but i don't know what's the 'original' template or picture which windows blurs for making it's aero effect. I experimented making my own Backgrounds, but...something's missing.....well, to shorten - i just want Rainmeter Aero. Period

i didn't find specific answer on internet, so i hope you can put some light on this, from your experience, or maby this is already solved somewhere, i just din't found it googling...tnx

VClouds Featured By Owner Jan 22, 2016

Maybe this can get you started:
carlos-way.deviantart.com/art/… and carlos-way.deviantart.com/art/…

Harishchand Featured By Owner Jan 24, 2016

tnx

(y)

fuzzynco Featured By Owner Mar 15, 2015

is there a way to display 8 disks (vs 4) ?

where do you get the paging space from?
Windows shows 1GB on c: which is
what I defined, you show 5GB?

don't know how to put a link here
but I do have screen shots explaining it.

is there a way to not show unused
functions (media player , gmail etc)?

hekee Featured By Owner Feb 10, 2014

very nice!!

VClouds Featured By Owner Feb 11, 2014

Thanks!

lambosimo89 Featured By Owner Mar 2, 2013

this is really superb!!

VClouds Featured By Owner Mar 4, 2013

Thanks!

ganjiry Featured By Owner Jan 3, 2013

Nice job

VClouds Featured By Owner Jan 3, 2013

Thanks

dkamm65 Featured By Owner Oct 10, 2012

Is there a way to use Yahoo Mail instead of Gmail?

Also is it possible to completely remove the background so only the text is visible?

dkamm65 Featured By Owner Oct 10, 2012

Actually, I set it up to use Gmail, but it just says 'N/A' still. I do have unread messages, though.

dkamm65 Featured By Owner Oct 10, 2012

Nevermind.

Ton-K300 Featured By Owner Aug 3, 2012

Excellent!

VClouds Featured By Owner Aug 4, 2012

Thank you!

Ton-K300 Featured By Owner Aug 7, 2012

You're very welcome!

camputer Featured By Owner Dec 9, 2011

Wow! Have been using your weather skin (version 1) for over a year (and loving it) and when it stopped working recently I went looking for an way to fix it. And what do you know, I find version 2 of the weather widget, and vClouds system is here! Very very well done. I'm picky about the stuff I use on my desktop but this looks sooooo good. Thank you!

Between the weather and system widgets, I'm going to scrap my old theme. Now I just need to find a way to put up a newsfeed or two! (You aren't planning on making a matching newsfeed widget are you?)

VClouds Featured By Owner Dec 10, 2011

I have no plans for a news reader atm but maybe I will make one in the future.

xtrinity1 Featured By Owner Dec 7, 2011 Student Digital Artist

Can sound for Gmail b a little stronger, or some settings for sounds..in the further versions of VClouds System..?
Nice gadgets!

xtrinity1 Featured By Owner Nov 1, 2011 Student Digital Artist

Everything works like a charm..I use the latest one ver. of the Rainmeter 2.2 beta (r1008) with Foobar2000 1.1.9 beta. NOW PLAYING list works nice.
The last night, Ive tried to intall iTunes..and thats my default player for time being..but NOW PLAYING does not show any information when iTunes is in playback mode.
Ive tried to edit skin of VClouds System but cant to figure out what to do. On Rainmeter supported players list..iTunes is full supported, but I cant to obtain anything in NOW PLAYING section.

btw,Ive tried to uninstall foo_rainmeter.dll plugin from Foobar/Components..but in vain. iTunes does not show any info.

VClouds Featured By Owner Nov 1, 2011

I'm using latest Rainmeter 2.2 r1008 and latest iTunes 10.5.0.142 and it works fine...

Since you said your using the latest version of both rainmeter and itunes the only thing i'm left to ask is have you read the instructions and set the player name in the settings utility?

xtrinity1 Featured By Owner Nov 1, 2011 Student Digital Artist

Omg, totally forgot to check VClouds settings..I had it somewhere in my mind..

10x LOT!

Works perfect.

VClouds Featured By Owner Nov 2, 2011

Your welcome

xtrinity1 Featured By Owner Dec 6, 2011 Student Digital Artist

Hi..
I use ur _VClouds Weather 2_ gadget and its awesome, but in the last time Ive a problem.

Since Ive been installed the latest ver. of Rainmeter 2.2 beta (r1074), and its mayB just not about it, so my problem started to occure just in that period time.. hence, here is my problem..actually, gadget is constantly is some kind of 'unfinished mood'..i.e. VClouds Weather 2 dont show regular icons and weather report..it seems like its blocked by Kasperski,but Ive checked Firewall and ApplicationControls in Kasperky and and everything works fine there..but VClouds still dont refresh himself regulary..i.e. I ve tried manualy do apply 'Refresh all' from Rainmeter, or 'Refresh Skin', by VClouds himself only, and the result is the same..no regular appearance of the weather status..Also,I use VClouds System,and it works like a charm..so any hint about Kaspersky or system firewall is obvious..as VClouds System works regulary. (btw,Ive disabled system firewall,of course..no need for that,coz Ive Kaspersky).

There are a pics, that describe my actually problem status..

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That is what I get ,in a row,..every time I apply a 'Refresh all' within a _Rainmeter_ from a _sys.try_,..so, first time, Ive got unfinished task..and so..the 2nd,3th and 4th time Ive applied 'Refresh all'..
Also, there is appeared _Rainmeter iohelix The Weather Channel_ logo every time,constantly,and doesnt dissapear at all....as u can see on the pics..

Please, how can I to resolve that problem..coz I love VClouds Weather a lot.
Its started to occure a few days ago, before that it worked just like a charm..no matter of beta version of Rainmeter..it worked on the previos versions of Reinmeter beta 2.2.

VClouds Featured By Owner Dec 7, 2011

Please go to the VClouds Weather 2 page and look at the last comments...

xtrinity1 Featured By Owner Dec 13, 2011 Student Digital Artist

HI..
Ive translated English.inc to my native language Serbian.inc. How to add that one to the list of languages..?

VClouds Featured By Owner Dec 14, 2011

Did you translate VClouds Weather 2 or VClouds System?
If you mean the weather, than upload the translated file to mediafire.com and send me a note with the link.
Thanks!

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xtrinity1 Featured By Owner Dec 6, 2011 Student Digital Artist

..here is a log..

[link]

DaMizZa Featured By Owner Oct 25, 2011

So I was really excited to use this so that I could have a nicer system monitor and get my GMail unread notifications at the same time as the skin is gorgeous. Only problem is my GMail username contains a period "." and it appears as though it keeps replacing the "." with a "%2E" for some reason, making it impossible for me to get this configured properly. I just spent a solid hour on Google trying to figure out a way to fix this and came up empty. I'm praying that this is an issue someone has encountered before and figured out a fix for ???

8000860 Featured By Owner Oct 20, 2011

Exactly what I wanted! Friend, I even did't know about its existing! Now I have all that I wanted from Reinmeter! Thank you so much! And good luck!

8000860 Featured By Owner Oct 20, 2011

And, please, if it will be not hard for you, can you explain me how to make 4-th disk showing me a free/used space for USB (I maked it opening my USB, but it is no showing me information about its space).

VClouds Featured By Owner Oct 20, 2011

You will need to edit the skin, search all the Disk4 measures and add to all of them the line: IgnoreRemovable=0
For example:
[measureTotalDisk4]
Measure=FreeDiskSpace
Drive=#disk5#
Total=1
UpdateDivider=120
IgnoreRemovable=0

8000860 Featured By Owner Oct 20, 2011

Thank you! Now works perfect!

VClouds Featured By Owner Oct 21, 2011

Your welcome

xtrinity1 Featured By Owner Aug 25, 2011 Student Digital Artist

Hmm..some tracs (Albums) cant b played with cover art visible in NOW PLAYING section..and some albums works fine.
Yesterday,I was tried only with one album,trying to change the name of the cover in 'Folder.jpg' ; 'Cover.jpg' etc..but Ive never succeeded.
It appears only default cover with some 'yellow in background'/ 'TOPS' cover art.

The 'Previous' button doesnt work in Foobar2000 (the last one v. 1.1.8 /beta 5)

VClouds Featured By Owner Aug 26, 2011

Do you have those problems when using this skin: [link] ?

xtrinity1 Featured By Owner Dec 14, 2011 Student Digital Artist

Ive meant on Weather 2

Here comes a link:

[link]

That is for Serbian language.

10x

xtrinity1 Featured By Owner Aug 24, 2011 Student Digital Artist

Nice work!
How to manage 'Previous' button in NOW PLAYING section..it doesnt works with Foobar2000. All the others buttons works great.

btw..how to obtain cover.jpg image to b shown in cover setion.For example..if I play e.g. JoeSatriani playlist..cover of that album is not shown in (avatar) i.e. NOW PLAYING section. In your example, cover is fine.Ive tried to edit skin,but in vain.

VClouds Featured By Owner Aug 24, 2011

About the 'Previous' button, i'm using Winamp and it works as it should. please check here [link] for more info.

If you want the cover art to show, it needs to be in the same folder as the song your playing and named the same as the album. for example if your playing a song from the album 'Not Of This Earth' the album art should be named 'Not Of This Earth.jpg' or it can also be named 'folder.jpg'.
AFAIK it cant show embedded art.