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You're welcome, it's been fun :))
Glad you've got it fixed now, congrats :))
I guess you have more questions to ask
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion

First it might be worth sorting out all your multimedia by working through this worksheet
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu
i usually go with non-free components but hope to go completely OpenSource before anyone asks me to pay for using their codec or something ;)  

Also this guide might help as quick reference rather than being something to read all the way through
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromWindows

If you feel the need to resize your Windows partition then it's worth
creating a new linux-swap in the empty space just after your Windows and
use "SwapOn" and then just delete your old linux-swap (you'll need to do
"Swap Off" before it will let you).  Resizing and moving takes ages but
deleting partitions is very fast.  Obviously deleting a non-swap
partition will lose all the data on that partition so all other types of
partitions should just be moved or resized rather than deleted).  Even
just moving or resizing a partition can result in data loss or even
corruption of data to the extent that you might need to delete the
partition and start again so always backup crucial data before moving or
re-sizing.  If you manage to resize the Extended Partition then you'll
have space in front of the Ubuntu partition and rather than move the
Ubuntu partition it might be smarter to create a new partition for a
different purpose, such as giving it the "Mount Point"
"/home/yourusername/Music" (or something) although that involves messing
around with fstab and is worth asking as a new question when you get
that far ;)

A few tiny (slightly off beat) distros worth trying out on your sda7 are sliTaz, Wolvix Hunter 1.1.0 (if it fits, i don't think the 2.0betas will as i think they need maybe 3Gb of hard-drive space), antiX (if you can find it and the name doesn't put you off)
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=wolvix
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=slitaz
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=antix
DistroWatch is a great place to find the latest news about distro releases and is a popular place for comparing different distros but it also has some handy other pages such as it's "Weekly" magazine articles.  Usually these are just about within the grasp of even noobs but here's 2 old ones that i still haven't quite worked out but might be useful for you when you need to resize or move partitions ... 
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090309#feature
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090316#feature

Mostly when you install a new distro you can set it up to use the same
/home partition and in theory that would allow you to login to your new
distro with the same username you use in Ubuntu.  In practice it might
be better to give them a new username so that you can fully experience
all their default settings for their desktop and stuff although you'll
only immediately notice this if you install a distro that uses the same
"Desktop Environment" that Ubuntu uses (Gnome, Kubuntu uses KDE, Xubuntu
& Wolvix use Xfce)

Also each time you install a new distro it will want to install it's own boot-loader, usually grub but sometimes Lilo.  It might be worth just going with that at first, let them re-write the Mbr.  Alternatively you'll need to copy a chunk of their /boot/grub/menu.lst into the one for Ubuntu and then reinstate Ubuntu's grub, which you will probably need to do at some-point later anyway
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot#Recovering%20GRUB%20after%20reinstalling%20Windows

Anyway, welcome to linux-land, especially the Ubuntu corner :)  I wonder if there's a local Ubuntu or Linux users group around near you?
Good luck and have fun :)
Regards from
Tom :)

Ps i'm sure there are some Spanish distro's that might be interesting to
try out too :)

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