Heya,

In this post, I am going to share a simple solution, yet not known by many.  I had a personal experience of having it with McAfee 2009 Total Protection & Windows Blinds (6.0).

My McAfee went through some unrepairable error for which the only solution was a REINSTALL. Since I had enough of McAfee, i decided to uninstall it and install Kaspersky AntiVirus 2009. However as everyone knows, KAV is a very “rigid” type of an Antivirus. It requires that it is the ONLY Antimalware app. on a particular PC. When I started to install it, it refused & said that “McAfee is there, I can’t install !”, even though i had uninstalled it. I googled for a McAfee REMOVAL TOOL and it saved me :) It can be downloaded from here.

Another alternative is also available, if you don’t want to google removal tools. In my case I came across another application. Windows Blinds and it refused to get removed and showed “”Could not open INSTALL log”.

The Steps required are -

1. First try to clean uninstall it again using windows Installer Clean Up utility, it’s available at Microsoft.
2. Once downloaded and installed, go to “C:\program files\windows installer clean up”, there you will find a file msicuu.exe.
3. Run this and see if windows blinds is listed in the box. If so, select it and click on remove.
4. Restart computer.

However, I don’t know why I did not see Windows Blinds in the dialog Box, so i downloaded this. It’s the authorized tool from Stardock Inc. themselves. After all, The Creator of the Application knows best ;)

By,

Ahmad Shumayal,

Admin.

I was able to download videos in flv format but it was a disaster and time-waste for me to convert them to mp4 and moreover I was not satisfied with the video quality of the converts.

Now I’ve found a way with which I can download .mp4 videos directly from Youtube. I’ll be telling of it to you all in this post…

Requirements:

1. Internet Download Manager (Click here to download) or Orbit Downloader (Click here to download).
2. Internet Connection:)

Procedure:

1. Install Internet Download Manager (IDM) or any other relevant.
2. Go to Youtube.com and watch the video.
3. Add &fmt=18 to the URL of the video (without any gap or space). Example:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyTJ114IOSc
4. After adding it would look like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyTJ114IOSc&fmt=18
5. Then download the video with IDM or whatever software you had installed. You will see that it comes in MP4 format.

The secret of this is that recently Youtube was doing some tests with its videos. It started providing the videos in HQ by adding links saying “Watch this video in High Quality”. What this link does is that it adds &fmt=6 to the URL of the video.

Other codes which can be used are:

• &fmt=6 (normal HQ)
• &fmt=12 (better than before)
• &fmt=16 (clode to MP4)
• &fmt=18(outputs the MP4 file of the video instead of FLV, thus giving MP4 quality)
• &fmt=22(highest quality, somewhat more HQ than MP4 and more advanced)