# Installation

For the Rainmeter Grayhound Skin to work you need to two products for the installation.

1. [Rainmeter](https://docs.rainmeter.net/)
2. [HWiINFO](https://www.hwinfo.com/)

## HWiINFO

HWiINFO is a popular, free and amazingly detailed hardware information tool for Windows. It digs deep into the guts of your system and extracts all the details it can find. A natural choice and source for Rainmeter skins. I wish the Rainmeter team would support and document it better. Thanks to other Rainmeter skin developers it has been proven as a suitable Rainmeter metering source.

Once you have installed HWiINFO it needs to be started and configured to work with Rainmeter. My documentation below is based on what I found in the [Gadgets](https://www.deviantart.com/silverazide/art/Gadgets-5-4-3-522574269) skin by [SilverAzide](https://www.deviantart.com/silverazide).

[HWiNFO setup for Rainmeter](https://lewe.gitbook.io/rainmeter-skin-grayhound/installation/hwinfo-setup-for-rainmeter)

## Rainmeter

Download and install [Rainmeter](https://www.rainmeter.net/). Select to have it start with Windows.

Start Rainmeter manually or restart Windows.

## Grayhound Skin Pack

Download the Grayhound Skin from GitHub. Open the rmskin folder there and download the latest .rmskin file (see link below). Double-click it. Rainmeter will open the file and install it for you.

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**Grayhound Skin Pack on GitHub**

<https://github.com/glewe/rm-grayhound/tree/master/rmskin>
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