Discovering your Computer’s Cache

Watching the episodes of your Favourite TV show on the net is awesome! and many of us still think that watching videos on net is free and make a huge mistake. Watching video on net isn’t free, it buffers because of transmission of data from server to the user or sometimes P2p. You might have noticed 2 timelines with one superimposing the other. The one which leads is the buffer time-line, it shows how far the video has be downloaded, commonly known as buffering. Many of the video sharing sites don’t allow users to download the video directly from the site, put besides the exceptions for example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PuHGKnboNY. I thought Youtube commenced Direct Download but this doesn’t seem to move any further.

Leaving a Video buffer and watching it after the buffering is over will let you watch the video smoothly provided you have the latest version of flash player. Yup, i’m sure this might have left you with a question “The video is already downloaded but i download it again from 3rd party sites and applications, is there any way to save it directly?” Here the trick is. The video you watch gets stored in your browser cache. Internet Explorer (IE) is a default browser for Computers loaded with Microsoft’s Operating Systems.

As you know, Microsoft Operating Systems are user friendly or you can say you’re more used to it. Internet Explorer’s cache is unlike the other browsers. One can access it’s information easily, Yes, Saving the buffered Videos and also Temporary Files saved in your computer. The file named as “Temporary Internet Files” in your Local Disk. This destination consists of Every Junk from a Cookie to an EXE file! Yup it also saves some programs which do not let the user have the setup files, like Yahoo Messenger.

To download your videos, first you must let them buffer till the end, patience is important. Remember your patience will let you save the file, If you’re in a hurry and don’t let the video buffer till the end you pay for it by downloading it again from 3rd party sites.

First get into C:\Documents and Settings\[User name]\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files. Replace the user name with your user name.

Secondly Right Click—>> Arrange Icons By–>> Size, which makes you find your saved videos easily as videos are always bigger in size and also Right Click—>> View–>> Details, So that you can find your file by type and Size easily.

Third, Scroll to the end as these files are placed in ‘size’ order.

The last part Copy The file from this folder and paste it to the location you want to and then rename it. Hola! your Buffered Video is now with you, Time saved and Data Transfers reduced.

Limited to Administrator- The hack way

Follow the steps given below to convert your accounts privileges from limited to administrator.

1) Press Windows Logo+R or Start—>>Run to open Run dialog.

2) Type in “cmd” without quotes to bring up the command prompt window.

3) To view administrators of your PC type in “net localgroup administrators”

4) To change your limited account to administrator account type in “net localgroup administrators /add “accountname” ” For eg. “net localgroup administrators /add techundercover” will convert techundercover’s account privileges from Limited to administrator.

5) Close CMD by pressing X button or type in “exit” without quotes.

Make sure you’re not logged in from the account for which you want to change the privileges and the account you’ve logged on from is an Administrator account. If you have any doubts whether this Hack works or not try this. 1) Before getting into Cmd go to Control panel–>User accounts–>>User accounts–>> and check the Privileges of the account which is going to be hacked and made an Administrator account and Check the status after you finish hacking and you’ll find the change.