HOW TO - Download Youtube Videos

This is a simple and easy to follow guide on how to download YouTube videos.
NOTE: No 3rd party,add ons,browser plugins is required. You do not have to install anything and its perfectly safe.

As many of us know its not always practical to always watch things on the go and especially with high mobile data charges.

Can be useful for say.. downloading all the barney,Dora and Baby Einstein videos to take on a road trip to keep the kids busy..
Watch the short video below and you will be downloading YouTube videos in 1 minute.

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FIXED: Office 2013 crashes when trying to "save as" or open and browse

So today I've come across this issue on my machine after installing a host of windows updates. I tend to install all updates on my machine to see what it breaks so my users don't have to experience the same pain. This one however was so frustrating because it involved workarounds that was tedious and time consuming and also because I use the MS Office application quite frequently. 

The Issue:

So every time I tried to open a document it would crash. I would get some "faulting application" message etc similar to 
"Faulting application name: POWERPNT.EXE, version: 15.0.4627.1000, time stamp: 0x538584c8"
"Faulting module name: mso.dll, version: 15.0.4631.1000, time stamp: 0x5396b083"
Blah Blah Blah


So then I realized I could not "save as" any documents either. Any attempt to open the explorer view and browse for documents results in a crash. 
All Office applications except outlook was affected.

Doing a office repair did not help.
Doing a uninstall and reinstall did not help.

I did some digging and found this to an issue relating to Office 2013. Most victims had Office 2013 with Windows 8/8.1 but reports show Win 7 with Office 2013 was also affected.

As a work around opening office in "safe mode" helped temporarily

Type winword /safe      - Opens Word
Type powerpnt /safe     - Opens Excel
Type excel /safe            - Opens Powerpoint

Type excel /safe and press Enter to start Excel 2013

• Type winword /safe and press Enter to start Word 2013.
• Type powerpnt /safe and press Enter to start PowerPoint 2013.

As a work around opening office in "safe mode" helped but did not resolve the issue


The Solution

Its yet another MS update that's suppose to improve stability and performance that breaks things.
The culprit is KB2880987

Simply go to Control Panel > Programs and Features > View Installed Updates > Search for KB2880987 and uninstall it.

That's it! Hope this has been informative and helpful for you. 

FIXED: Internet Explorer Update KB2964358 causes Security File Download Pop up

Microsoft has released Security Bulletin MS14-021 that addresses the issues raised with Microsoft Security Advisory 2963983. MS has also decided to release the security update for Windows XP even though it is out of support.

Anyway so I go along and install this update to a bunch of machines after testing it first. Everything seemed fine until today when I started getting this error in my users Groupwise mailbox whenever they try and open an e-mail.

Anyway to cut a long story short I eventually discovered that its not really so much a Groupwise issue but an Internet Explorer issue. The immediate work around was obviously to uninstall patch KB2964358 and Voila! but that was not the long term fix.

I've seen many on the web that do not install or check that they have the pre-requisite cumulaitve security updates installed first before appying patch KB2964358.

The simple resolution for me was tosimply install the cumulative security update  KB2925418 which can be found here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2925418/en-us  and KB2929437 for IE11/Win7

You also want to check on MS14-018. It is VERY important that you have these updates installed BEFORE you apply KB2964358. Failing to do so will surely result in the update KB2964358 causing issues resulting in Internet Explorer not rendering the web page but trying to download it instead.

Download Links:

1. http://www.microsoft.com/en-za/search/DownloadResults.aspx?q=KB2925418 then choose your OS and IE version
2.  http://www.microsoft.com/en-za/search/DownloadResults.aspx?q=KB2929437  For IE 11 on Win 7 or Windows Server 2008R2

If you have found this helpful or any questions please comment and let me know