Rainmeter will make you desktop more beautiful, with widgets. If you want to remove your icons, use fence that you can find here : Download Fence. Now your desktop is plain, lets put some stuff!
1. Make sure you have download the Rainmeter from the introduction! Now install it.
2. Browse for skins and download what you like the most.
3. If it is an .rmskin, just double-click to the file. If it is a folder, put it in C:\Users\<name>\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins. And then refresh your entire rainmeter by clicking refresh all on the right-click on one of the rainmeter widget.
4. Your Rainmeter skin is avaliable now. The ideal one has a launcher, a clock, a music player. But you can add anything! So just keep adding until you are satisfied!
A cool Rainmeter skin!
Now you can advance to the next step, which is changing the litestep! This next step will be more and more tricky! Your journey just start guys!