[Techdesk] - Fixing YouTube buttons etc

July 10, 2011 - 10:10pm — Iaurdagnire

Windows 7 Home Pre. 64-bit
Intel Core i5-2500K
8GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
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Disconnected: 150fps

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Misc

How to fix your YouTube Player button.
Due to YouTube phasing out the ability to customise new players, the embedded codes they give you no longer work for the way they are used on TEFc. In order to get it to work again, all you need to do is change the format of the URL to this:
http://www.youtube.com/v/VIDEOID
Make sure there is nothing after the video ID, and that it does not have /embed/; replace this with /v/ like so:
<*iframe title="YouTube video player" width="30" height="25" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MK6TXMsvgQg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen><*/iframe>

The same rules apply for the old code. Just make sure your URL has the /v/VIDEOID format.
Keepiru's blog of YouTube tricks.

Software

Windows 7 loads temporary profile
This is a common problem. Simply go into C:\Users, copy everything inside your profile folder and create a new administrator profile to paste it into. Your documents and programs are safe, though you might have to configure any profile setting you had (docs, theme configs for example). Word to the wise, back up your documents on an external hard drive as often as you deem necessary.

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YouTube keeps crashing Firefox
YouTube needs your flash drivers to be up to date. You can either do this by downloading straight from Adobe's website, or update it via Firefox plugins. If the error still occurs, it is conflicting with another plugin. Update all your plugins, or failing that simply remove them all and start afresh.

Hardware

Intuos 3 Tablet Pen Pressure
Intuos 3 tablets are not compatible with Windows Vista or 7. You must go to the Wacom website, select your model and download driver 6.1.5-3a.

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Frequent blue screens, long-number error messages on start-up and while running multiple programs
Your motherboard is packing up. Back up your documents and start shopping for a new computer. It will last a while, but one day it will just not work and there will be nothing you can do about it. Sorry!