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hey everybody this is Steve from gamer sexist on net today we're doing a tutorial video tutorial on how to create a skyrim themed desktop it is completely Skyrim theme that uses the Skyrim UI actually to navigate your icons so you can use that left vertical slider to launch your games via the Skyrim UI and it is functioning much better on the Windows desktop than an actual Skyrim so it's not like you're drinking the wrong potion by accident and then wines kill yourself so I'm not bitter but that's what we're going to do and this is just what it looks like right now this is the completed version it uses a couple applications here's what you're going to need you will need rainmeter which is actually a free application that manages the quote/unquote UI part of this Skyrim set and then the background the animated background is handled by Star docs desk escapes which is a paid program so you do not need it it is not required they have a 30 day free trial then it's 20 bucks or something so you should really only buy it if you're going to do a lot of these and if you like showing things off but it is not required you can just set the desktop background to a screenshot of your character if you would prefer or a nice screen shot of Skyrim the rest of it though is free so let's dive into that first you are going to need these files that I have in my folder and I have linked every single one of these in the description below and I linked up an order of use that way is very nicely organized and we will just speed through this so first install rainmeter because that's the free one it's the easy one and pretty standard installation just click through it once it is installed we're going to launch it and it will look something like this this is the standard default background and then after this we need to download the Skyrim rainmeter suite Skyrim desktop plugin which is developed by actor on I believe of deviantART just grab that in the description below unzip it go into these zipped or unzipped folder and grab test 5 Skyrim suite v2 dot RM skin double click on that it should automatically open with rainmeter we need to go enable it right click on any of these sidebars that's on with rainmeter and go to rainmeter right click go to skins test 5 Skyrim v2 and you can start enabling these so let's start by enabling the launch which you can see has hey there middle mouse click me and set up your applications now that's where you can manage your icons we want to enable the vertical sidebar for that to go on top of and the horizontal sidebar for the bottom bottom of the page and you can enable CPU usage which uses by default Magica but you can change it to health or something and it is degrading usage not increasing usage so it starts full and then goes down don't get confused by that same for memory usage and same for harddrive usage if you really want to see how bad you are managing your space and with all of those activated let's now go ahead and get this desktop background in if you are not using the program the desk escapes program just set the screen shot otherwise follow me and install desk escapes launch it and then when you see we have the current background and we need to install the Skyrim background so first go download that from the link below and once it's downloaded it should auto open with desk escapes double click on it you will see it pop up in there and then all you do is of course click on it and hit the apply button just like I did here just right-click and apply very easy so now we have an animated sovngarde background and next all we really have left at this point is managing that left menu so middle click on it just like it says you are presented with an ini file or a txt file actually just scroll down to the very bottom of it and we will see app names app 1 name hey app 1 path and all kinds of stuff like that and these are just going to be a pretty simple let's go ahead and make the first one link to a desktop icon so I'm going to make it link to I don't know why not start path 2 just because it's right there on my desktop so let's rename app 1 name to Starcraft 2 I will right click on my icon go to properties and then grab that target ID right there copy it and paste it in a pond path now you'll see when we click on it it will launch Starcraft 2 you can do this for steam for Skyrim for CPU Z for cpuid whatever everything you can get you just throw it all right there I think it only fits up to 10 so pick your 10 favorite ones go ahead and click through them you'll see a launch just like they do on my screen and now the only thing left really to change is if you want to change your CPU usage to a different color or memory middle click on the widget and just scroll through and change the color to whatever you want so we can do like health or stamina or any of those and there are of course battery meters and stuff like that but let's go ahead and change CPU to health so that will be underscore health just like that and now it's red so pretty simple stuff now the very last thing to do of course is the mouse cursor you have seen that I have different pointers here based on what I'm doing and they are all at Skyrim themes so I downloaded those also from a link below grab that and then it's pretty easy we did this in a video before just launch control panel go to mouse click on pointers and then you go to browse and change each respective pointer to whatever it's named in the folder and that is everything there is nothing left to do so we are completely done with the Skyrim desktop at this point enjoy it I will try to do another one maybe Starcraft I don't know leave your comments below tell you what kind of desktop you want I will make it happen as a small reminder we will be at PAX East this weekend so I will see you there if you are there approach anyone with the GM shirt and say hi and please like this video if you liked it leave any comments at all if you have questions and 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