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View File Millennium Gadgets Pack (for Rainmeter Windows) Millennium Gadgets Pack (requires Rainmeter and Windows 7 or later) This Millennium download has been updated and now contains a suite (pack) of Millennium-inspired gadgets which run on the free Rainmeter theming platform for Windows. The pack includes 8 Millennium inspired gadgets, with additional variants (total of 10 designs). Frank Black Millennium Countdown Halloween 'Spooky' Frank Black Millennium Countdown Halloween Pumpkin Millennium Countdown with 2 selectable variations: animated with flickering candle (art by @ethsnafu) and standard, non-animated version. Lucy Butler Millennium Countdown with 2 selectable variations: choice of 2 scenes from Antipas Halloween 'Spooky Lucy Butler' Animated Millennium Countdown Ouroborous 'All-In-1' Millennium Countdown with choice of 4 selectable variations including standard gold Ouroborous, an animated rotating Ouroborous, and the popular Owls hacked version of the Ouroborous available in 2 matching white or gold text versions. Owls Ouroborous Millennium Countdown A stand-alone variation featuring the popular Owls hacked version of the Millennium Group's Ouroborous branding available in 2 matching white or gold text versions. Animated Ouroborous Millennium Countdown A stand-alone variation with an animated rotating Ouroborous. Description These Countdown gadgets can be installed on modern, recent versions of Microsoft Windows including Windows 7 with Service Pack 1, 8x, 10 (after Rainmeter is installed first). The gadgets feature images inspired by Millennium, a 'Welcome Message' from the Millennium Group, your name (optional) and the 'number of days remaining' (you can edit the countdown date/time,) all inspired by Chris Carter's Millennium television series. Here's a video to show you how they work... that Festive wallpaper is not included! Features Millenniumistic! Our interactive Countdown gadgets feature images from Millennium television series, the default gadget is of Millennium Group criminal profiler Frank Black and is the first one made. Display as many as you like, 1 or all of the gadgets, you tweak each with different names and countdown times. Easy to personalise - Just click on the 'Welcome Frank' greeting to display your own name instead (max 16 letters) . After a few seconds, the gadget will update with the new name. Days Remaining Countdown - Upon first install, displays the current number of days remaining in Millennium-inspired style until next New Year's Day or Halloween. Just click on the countdown to change the date/time of your event. After a few seconds, the gadget will update with the new time. TIWWA Site Link - Clicking the image on the gadget triggers the booming Millennium style drum sound and takes you to straight to our Millennium community forums (TIWWA) via your current default internet browser. Automatic saving - The gadget will remember your customised settings (name, target date) whenever you restart your computer (if you have the default setting enabled in Rainmeter to load Rainmeter when you start Windows). Drag and drop anywhere on your desktop. Rainmeter will remember where you left the gadget so it will appear in the same place, when you next restart Windows. You can also save your desktop layout as a new layout within Rainmeter, with or without your current desktop background. Requirements Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows 8, Windows 10 and later. Rainmeter, the best known and most popular desktop customization program for Windows which uses very little CPU and RAM resources and will run perfectly well on any supported hardware. Rainmeter is free and open source. Remember to please download and install Rainmeter first, then afterwards you can install our gadgets. Available from https://www.rainmeter.net/ For more hints and guidance on using our gadgets, how to display more than or choose different styles on some gadgets, please see this handy pinned topic:- How to install First install the latest free version of Rainmeter software from the official Rainmeter site. You can download it for free from https://www.rainmeter.net/ After Rainmeter is installed, it shows you a welcome message skin and demo widgets. You can close off/disable them (and any others you don't want visible) by right-clicking on them, and selecting Unload. Download the latest Millennium Gadget pack from here, then double-click on it to install (it should open automatically in Rainmeter). How to configure Place them where you like! You can click, drag and drop the gadgets to move to any desktop area of any monitor you have. Rainmeter will remember its position. Change the name! You can change the name shown from Frank to your own, simply click on the "Welcome Frank" message and following the instructions. Change the countdown date and time! You can change the countdown timer's target date by clicking on the current countdown message and following the instructions to enter a new future event date/time. The gadget will ask you for the year, month, day, hour and minute. E.g. So for midnight on 18th March, 2019, enter 19, followed by 03, followed by 18, followed by 00, followed by 00. The gadget then refreshes after a few seconds with the new setting. Easy peasy. Right click on any gadgets to unload, view any additional variations, themes and animations as per the Support Topic and shown in the video. MILLENNIUM and all related characters are © Copyright Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc and its related entities. All Rights Reserved. Submitter The Old Man Submitted 01/14/2017 Category Millennium Gadgets (Win10) Specific Requirements Install latest stable release of Rainmeter first, for Windows 7 or later

Welcome to a pinned topic containing guidance and tips on the easy installation and use of our Millennium Gadgets, which require the excellent Rainmeter program to be installed first. How to install our Millennium Gadgets Firstly, ensure you have Rainmeter installed and running on your Windows computer. When asked, be sure to let Rainmeter start with Windows, so your favourite gadgets appear when you start your computer. You can download it for free from https://www.rainmeter.net/ Widgets or gadgets in Rainmeter are called Skins. When first installed, Rainmeter automatically shows you a 'welcome message' Skin which you can get rid of. This is part of the Illustro range of pre-supplied Skins which you can also enable and use at any time. You can disable it (called Unloading) or any other skin you don't like or want, simply by right-clicking on the Skin and selecting the Unload option. Download and install our Millennium gadgets. The default gadget should then open using Rainmeter. Drag and drop it where you want it to live on your desktop and when ready click on the various features to personalise them where available, such as countdown timers and name personalisation. Some but not all Skins have different variations called Variants, such as a different style or animated design. If you should happen to break any widgets especially if you have explored some of the advanced Rainmeter settings and got confused, simply reinstall the widget you already downloaded, and it will completely re-install from scratch and work as normal. Making Use of the Right Click Menu Unloading a Gadget (or 'Skin') To deactivate a 'skin', you Unload it. There are 2 ways to Load or Unload a skin, either via right clicking on the skin, or using the full Manager control panel. In the screenshot below, to close off this Pumpkin-style gadget or Skin, we right-click on it and choose Unload Skin from the menu. Rainmeter normally remembers where it was, so if you reload it in the future, it will appear in the same place. Loading a Gadget (or 'Skin') There are 2 ways to Load or Unload a skin, either via right clicking on the skin, or using the full Manager control panel. To quickly load another gadget or any other 'Skin' if you already have one open, right click on any skin, then choose which you want to Load from the list. In the example screenshot below, we have the Frank Black Countdown skin (gadget) already loaded, but we want to add say, a Halloween-themed skin called HalloweenPumpkinCountDown. As we work through the M-TIWWA group of gadgets, we see the list of available gadgets, and then see the HalloweenPumpkin has 2 variations (called Variants), an animated version and a static version. We simply choose the one we want and it will open:- Variants Right-clicking on any Skin will bring up a menu. This example shown below is a single variation Skin, so under Variants there is only the 1 option, in this case the FrankBlack.ini. (An ini file is the configuration file for the skin, every skin has one):- This Pumpkin-style skin shown below has 2 variations or Variants, so you can choose which you prefer and swap between them at any time using the Right Click menu (only one style is visible at any one time):- Using more than one gadget You can use as many Skins or gadgets as you like with Rainmeter, most modern computers should have no problem displaying several at once. Our M-TIWWA gadgets come with several and more will be added in the future. Using the Rainmeter Manager control panel Rainmeter has a control panel called Manager where you can see which skins you have installed, which are Loaded (being displayed), and which are Unload (not displayed). You can get to the main Manager window either by double-clicking the raindrop icon for Rainmeter on your Windows taskbar by your clock, or by right-clicking on any open skin and then choosing the Rainmeter > Manage option. The Manager first shows the Skins tab, which shows you a list of skins you have installed and which are loaded or unloaded. To quickly Load a skin, double click on it from the list or select it to read more about it and then use the Load button. Unless you really know what you are doing, I would recommend leaving the other settings alone as per the screenshot above! Saving your favourite layouts with Manager using the Layouts tab The Layouts tab is useful, you can save a Layout (as many as you like with different names) which will save the positions of your favourite gadgets as per the screenshot below:- You can also Unload any skin from the Manager as per below:-