YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. YouTube was created in mid February 2005 by three former PayPal employees.

The San Bruno-based service uses Adobe Flash technology to display a wide variety of video content, including movie clips, TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as videoblogging and short original videos.

In October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had reached a deal to acquire the company for US$1.65 billion in Google stock. The deal closed on November 13, 2006.

With so many varied videos you may come across a few that you wish to download and keep on your PC.

Now YouTube video download does NOT offer this facility BUT there are plenty of FREE applications that you can use to achieve this task.

One popular one is from software company DVD VideoSoft.

This application allows you to download youtube videos straight to your computer hard drive with one mouse click. download youtube videos  will be saved as .AVI file.

You'll be able to play it with any popular video player on your computer such as Windows Media Player.

On testing this application it was free from spyware or adware.