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Windows 7 has some great new themes and I’ve been enjoying the image of Stonehenge in hoar-frost-covered fields from the UK set but I noticed some more eye-candy recently: The How To Geek site features some “awesome desktop wallpapers”<\/a> (I found them via Windows 7 Hacker<\/a>); and awesome seems to be the word as AddictiveTips has “26 Awesome Windows 7 Themes”<\/a> (not all of which are themes – some are just wallpaper). Just like Rob Margel<\/a>, I’m particularly taken with Clean Green<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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