How to manually download Youtube and other internet videos without using real player or any other tool in Windows7

1. Open the link in internet explorer.

2. Let the video buffer completely.

3. Open the following location by copying the below location and pasting it in the windows explorer bar.

     <your profile user folder >\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5

NOTE: Do not try to manually navigate to this location as it is not visible in the explorer.


4. Look for the file within the folders. Generally these files are large in size and would have a .flv extension.

5. Copy this file to your videos directory and name it suitably.

6. Use VLC media player or any other flv supporting player. But please dont use Real player becoz its a crap software.

How to free ports in windows 7

1. Open command prompt.
   i in the run section of start menu type cmd and hit enter,  a black window is opened.
2. type the command netstat -ano | find  "8080" and hit enter.

   netstat is a command that shows which ports are active.
  - used to attach the following attributes
     a displays all connections and ports
     n displays ports and adreses in numeric form
     o displays the process id which is using that port
 | used to execute another command over the output of the previous command.
  find is used to search for particular character patterns
"8080" is the pattern which i am searching.
here it means the port number number which I am interested to free ie 8080

3. the result would show you the process which is using that port.
4. Take the PID (process ID, the last numeric thing in the row) of that process.
5. Kill that process from task manager.
  i open task manager.
 ii search for that pid in the process tab.
   if you dont find the pid column
   goto view>select columns> select the pid option.
 iii rt click on that process and end it.


Thats it.