This is a great, comprehensive collection of sites to download music. All free, all legal.

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Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit is a free security tool from Microsoft which helps you enhance the security of your Windows. The tool allows you to harden applications that weren’t originally designed to take advantage of Windows security features, such as DEP (Data Execution Prevention).

Complete tutorial: The one security tool every Windows user should know about

Download page: Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit

If you are a Starcraft 2 fan and you want a Windows 7 theme, with diverse backgrounds and a Starcraft 2 specific sound scheme, check out this theme pack.

Download the Starcraft 2 Theme Pack By 7 Tutorials

If you are a Windows Media Player 12 user, then you will be interested in this roundup of skins. Very cool list, especially for geeks.

Top 7 Windows Media Player 12 Skins

We are using for some time a very cool add-on for Winamp & Windows Media Player which automatically finds & shows the lyrics for the songs you are playing. It was very hard to find something which works every time and it is actually free (not just free to download), but we’ve found it. Plus it doesn’t install any crapware to nag you. It is called Lyrics Plugin and you should definitely give it a try.

Lyrics Plugin (download page)

We know some of our US readers are big fans of Hulu. If you are interested not only in streaming their movies but also in downloading them to your PC, then you should try StreamTransport – a free tool which helps you do this – and read this very useful tutorial.

StreamTransport (download page) | How to download videos from Hulu: a step by step guide (tutorial by freeware genius)

Looking for a super fast and easy way to download YouTube videos? 3outube.com might be your answer. While watching the video, simply replace the “http://www.y” part of the URL with the number “3”. Bam! Download link will appear and you have your video.

3outube.com

Startmenu Animation 2 is a cool tool from DeviantART member oO-MrHigh-Oo. If you are into tweaking the visuals of your Windows 7/Windows Vista installation, you should definity consider giving it a try. He’s got also some cool skins, so you might want to look on his profile.

Download Page | Video Demo (YouTube)

If you are tired of using your old media player and you want to try something new, you must try SPlayer. This player is very minimalistic in its approach: low resource consumption, no ads, small size, portability, discrete interface, free of charge. I’ve been trying it out and played a few videos and movies with it and i like a lot. I might actually consider to switch from my heavily used GOM Player.

SPlayer Official Website | Direct Download

The notification area in Windows 7 is an improvement over previous versions of Windows. Problem is, after installing lots of applications and using them for a while, you end-up having a huge list icons in the notification area settings window. Even if some of them you actually uninstalled in the meantime, they still show up. Therefore, finding applications that you are actually using and making the settings you desire can take more time than it should.

The team from 7 Tutorials created a small batch-file which you can download & execute so that your notification area icon cache is reset.  After you run it, Windows 7 will recreate the cache and it will include only currently used applications.

How to Clean the Notification Area Icon Cache