This software in conjunction with Rainmeter (which is free!) is perfect, and the quality you get from the community of both is worth the $4. You'll spend a lot of your time looking at your desktop, so you may as well pimp it out.

The performance effect is minimal if you have it pause when an application goes into full screen (etc.), so no need to worry about it consuming your CPU and RAM if you use it wisely.

This software in conjunction with Rainmeter (which is free!) is perfect, and the quality you get from the community of both is worth the $4. You'll spend a lot of your time looking at your desktop, so you may as well pimp it out. The performance effect is minimal if you have it pause when an application goes into full screen (etc.), so no need to worry about it consuming your CPU and RAM if you use it wisely.