>>2018680You not only admit to being poor at customizing with it, you then blame the software for hogging your resources. This is one of the reasons Rainmeter has a bad name...
You can try Samurize, but if you can't figure out the basics in Rainmeter you may want to drop using it all together. Chances are your resources are "being hogged" because you're skin is refreshing too often while monitoring something like weather, mail, or drive space.
https://docs.rainmeter.net/tips/update-guide/ 