Outlook 2003 Calendar Printing – “The messaging interface has returned an unknown error”

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Problem: When you try to print another user’s shared calendar in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, the calendar does not print. Additionally, you receive the following error message:

“The messaging interface has returned an unknown error. If the problem persists, restart Outlook.”

Solution:

Disable the TaskPad option
1. On the File menu, click Print.
2. Click Page Setup.

3. On the Format tab, click to clear the TaskPad check box.
4. Click OK to close the Page Setup dialog box.
5. With the Daily Style print style selected, click OK to print the shared calendar.

and u are good to go!!

Remove U3 software from your USB drive

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I heard many people don’t like the new U3 technology that comes with the USB drives these days (including myself). You can uninstall this U3 software from your USB drive.. its very simple..

Click on the link below.. it will take you to U3 Launchpad Removal page… and follow the instructions.

Remove U3 Launchpad !!

It will also free up some space that was being used up by the U3 software.. yayyyy !!!

Download YouTube videos

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Not just YouTube but most of the websites sharing some form of videos have shifted to Flash format (.flv files). There are websites that can download these videos for you but do you really need to go to another website to download these ??

Follow these simple steps to download videos from YouTube (and other similar websites):

1. You need to install a player for .flv files. You can search on Google for free flv player. Here is the link to the one I use:

FLV Player

2. To download a video from YouTube, just play the video using Internet Explorer. Once it is fully played, go to Tools menu –> Internet Options. Under Browing History, click on Settings and then click View Files. It will open the Temporary Files Folder in your hard drive. You can sort the files by name or size (or even type) and look for a file with name starting with ‘get_video‘ (without any file extension).

3. Copy and paste this file some where in your computer and add an extension (.flv) to it. Play it with the FLV Player you downloaded earlier.

Hurray !!!

Even the videos from other websites, which are in flash format, can be downloaded and played using the above steps. They may already have .flv extension or may not like in case of YouTube.

Tip: If you want to reduce the effort in finding the file in Temporary Files Folder, clean your your browsing history before you play the file. For this, go to Tools menu –> Internet Options –> Delete Browsing History.. and click Delete All and selet the box for Also delete files and settings stored by Add-ons and click yes.

Note: Make sure you follow the copyright guidelines of the material you want to download.

Update:

I was having some trouble with the FLV players available so I searched a bit more. Even the famous VLC player can play flv files but dragging the progress bar was putting a stop to the playback. I found a better way. Enable your own Windows Media Player to play these files.

Download and install PlayFLV. While installation, it will ask you to install ffdshow. Install that also. Once the installation is complete, Window Media Player will be able to play flv files as well with all default functions, such as zooming, skipping and full screen view.