5 Great Registry Hacks

Today I am going to tell you about 5 great registry hacks which will help you improve your system features and performance.

1. Security:

USB Drives are one of the major tool through which data transfer takes place. In order to protect your data from getting stolen from you computer with the help of a USB drive you can make the USB drives read only.

Go to  ‘HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies‘ and   create a new DWORD value ‘WriteProtect‘ and set its value to 1. This will enable you to read from USB drives, but you won’t be able to copy data to it.

2. Sorting Files:

Quite often you want the files to appear according to their names in explorer. In order to restore the ASCII file ordering, perform the following hack :

Go to ‘HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Currentversion\Policies\Explorer’ and create a new DWORD value called as ‘NoStrCmpLogical’ and set its value to 1.

3. Speeding Up Menu loading time:

In order to make your menus load faster, perform the following tweak.

Go to ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Control Panel\Desktop‘ and right click ‘MenuShowDelay’ and click ‘Modify’. Change the string value to some nearby 100 value.

4. Reducing Folder Accessibility Time:

To speed up the access to any folder that is pinned to start menu, perform the following hack

Go to ‘HKCR\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers’ and right click ‘ContextMenuHandlers‘ and click ‘New|Key‘. Type ” (blank space and no quotation marks) and press Enter. Select any folder and right click on it to select ‘Pin to Start Menu’ while holding Shift key.

5. Multiple Logins in Messenger:

By default you are allowed only a single login at a time on Live Windows Messenger. You can override this by

Go to ‘HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsLive\Messenger’ and create a new DWORD value ‘Multiple Instances’ and its values as 1.

Hacking Youtube to find good quality videos

 Many of us are really found of videos and watch videos at youtube or Google Videos.  Ofcourse you prefer to watch good quality videos at youtube than those worse videos.

I am gonna show you a small trick that will do all the wonders, and now you can always get good quality youtube videos.

Step1: Click to video that you want to see, the link will display on Address bar.

Example:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne1l6VNkuLM

Step2: Add &fmt=6 to the end of that string.

That address like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne1l6VNkuLM&fmt=6

Optional Step: To get more quality youtube video

.Add   &fmt=18 to the end of that string, you’ll have the best quality video with direct download link !

Example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne1l6VNkuLM&fmt=18

Note: Appending &fmt=6 to the URL delivers a 448×336 resolution version of the video and appending &fmt=18 delivers a even better 480×360 resolution version.

Its that simple, now you have learned a secret of hacking Youtube for Good quality videos. Post your comments if you like the post.

Download Youtube, Google Videos and other Videos Free

As we all know Youtube has a very large database of videos that we watch online. Once I was asked by a friend of mine whether we can download the youtube videos for viewing it offline. There are many softwares out there using which you can easilydownload youtube videos.

In this post I am going to cover most of the methods to download free youtube videos.

Tips 1: Here is a simple trick to download youtube videos in any quality instantly by running a Java Script.

Download Regular Quality Youtube Video Direct Links [RQ]

javascript:window.location.href = 'http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=' + yt.getConfig('SWF_ARGS')['video_id'] + "&l=" + yt.getConfig('SWF_ARGS')['l'] + "&sk=" + yt.getConfig('SWF_ARGS')['sk'] + '&t=' + yt.getConfig('SWF_ARGS')['t'];

Download High Quality Youtube Video Direct Links [HQ]

javascript:window.location.href = 'http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=' + yt.getConfig('SWF_ARGS')['video_id'] + "&fmt=18&l=" + yt.getConfig('SWF_ARGS')['l'] + "&sk=" + yt.getConfig('SWF_ARGS')['sk'] + '&t=' + yt.getConfig('SWF_ARGS')['t'];

Download High Definition Youtube Videos Direct Links [HD]

javascript:window.location.href = 'http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=' + yt.getConfig('SWF_ARGS')['video_id'] + "&fmt=22&l=" + yt.getConfig('SWF_ARGS')['l'] + "&sk=" + yt.getConfig('SWF_ARGS')['sk'] + '&t=' + yt.getConfig('SWF_ARGS')['t'];

How to use the script or where to paste this java script?

1. Open any Youtube Video which you want to download.
2. Just copy the whole script (according to Quality Needed) and paste it on the address bar of the browser where the video is open.
3. Now Press Enter Key and Download of that yotube video will start instantly.

Note: If you watch many videos and want to download each of those videos, than you don’t need to always copy the above script. Just Drag them to your Bookmarks Toolbar or right click on the link and save as Bookmark.

Check Find high quality Youtube Videos post to learn an easy method of easilygetting good quality youtube videos

Tips 2:

This method shows a secret way of download youtube videos. Mostly when you watch videos online, these are stored in the Temporary folder.

You just need to find out what this folder is, where its located and you can copy that file onto any other location.

For Firefox browser: Look at for files with big size usually in xxxxkbs

C:\Documents and Settings\User_name\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxx.default\Cache

For Internet Explorer: Look at for files with big size usually in xxxxkbs

C:\Documents and Settings\User_name\Local Settings\Temp

Tipss 3: Download Youtube Videos Using third party softwares

1. Install this best Firefox Plugin/extention Download Helper to download almost any videos like Youtube, Google videos, zshare, veoh, dailymotion, MySpace, Porkolt, iFilm and many others

Download download Helper

2. Using the new latest version of Internet Download Manager(IDM), you can download videos automatically from any websites. Check below screen

3. Download Youtube Downloader Software that is available for free. using this application you can also convert the downloaded youtube videos format from .flv to any other file format.

Download Youtube Downloader

If you have any other trick to download youtube videos, use the comments box below to add to this post, and make it the one stop search for downloading youtube videos.