You will need to download  2 very light applications

First is  a very light weight app called TCPView, you can find it here

TCPView for Windows v2.53

Second application that you need which I find very useful is

Process Explorer v11.31

Once you have downloaded above tools , it is just matter of running them here are steps you need to follow,

In my case iTunes been running for a while and my self, am not listening to any music  but ITunes tells me someone is connected to me, lets see who is listening to my music so we can go to their desk and ask them for royalty  fee

First run TCPView and look for iTunes icon to see what connections are being made by iTunes to the network  here is the snap shot of mine

The block parts shows you the network name of the computer is connected to ITunes at 4560, now look for a computer name is not yours, the highlighted line shows a computer name that is connected to me in the format of “ComputerNetworkID.NetworkName.com:PORT” where ComputerNetworkID is the name of the computer that is connected to your machine

Now to find out what song they are listening to , stop playing any music in ITunes and open Process Explorer then find the current mp3 handler by pressing Clt+F and typeing mp3 to see which mp3s are being accessed,  here is my list

well now I know who is listening to my list and what song are they listening to , time to go get them to pay up

what you could do now, (however I don’t recommend it, unless its someone you know , like the guy sitting beside you) is to send them a friendly message asking them what they think of the song

BECAREFULL IF YOU DO THIS WRONG, YOU COULD SEND A MESSAGE TO YOUR WHOLE  COMPANY , BIG NO NO

Go to start-> run and type

net send ComputerNetworkID(you got this above) “Hey what do you think of that armin’s song? “

leave me a comment let me know if you guys have a better way of doing this

Cheers guys,

Amir

So what is causing this and how do we fix it ?

Cause:

Cause seems to be related to lack of a user profile association with user account, which causes a null pointer exception in .NET Runtime. This crashes the current running .net app with this event log in event viewer

Not much info provided is it ?

For more information about what causes this issue take a look at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913384 

Solution

So what can you do about this. Well after hours of searching around you have 2 options

Option number 1:

If you running windows xp,2003 and above (not including vista ) and are using visual studio 2005 only and really don’t want to install .net 3.0 or .net 305 then you need to download and apply this hotfix by Microsoft

KB913384 Access violation error for a .NET Framework 2.0 application

Option Number 2:

However if you are getting the exact error above with .net runtime version ending in 2.0.50727.3053 or higher, then most likely you are  running .net 3.0 or higher.

The above hotfix doesn’t work with .net 3.0 or higher, since I believe Microsoft has included this fixed this in their 3.0 and above releases.

Well you might ask if they have fixed this why am I getting this error.

The problem seems to be related  Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 sp1. Go to Control panel -> Programs and Features and look to see if you have Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 sp1 listed , if you do, uninstall it, 3.5 installation includes .net sp2 upgrade so there is no need for sp1

This should fix your problem, it worked on my machine

Hopefully this will be of some help to people out there who are having the same issue and are going crazy like me, Please leave comments and let me know if this has worked for you or not

Cheers guys,

Amir

As I mentioned in my last Post , I couldn’t find a free program out there that can let you set any windows on top, which would also work on a 64bit system. so I decided to make one. Being a programmer I have about 20 windows open at any given time on my dual monitor so I really find this useful I hope you find it useful as well.

Here is the 64 bit Version : 64 BIT

This is an open source software since it was built on top of an open source software (with modifications ), I will be releasing the source soon, it needs some cleaning up and commenting, Just wanted to get the executables out so people who are desperately looking for a 64bit solution can download it and enjoy.

Please let me know if you have any problems

Cheers guys,

Amir

Well if you are anything like me, addicted to your dual monitor and running multiple applications at the same time, then this post is for you.

I recently upgraded to windows vista 64bit and thought I could easily find an application to set any of my running apps on top of others the way I used to in my 32bit version of vista; but it wasn’t as easy as I had hoped for, After few hours of searching i gave up and decided to give it a shot my self.

However I found a rather old but good project that was meant for a same reason. Few hours later I had it compiling and working for 64bit systems. here is a screen shot

So this is for everyone out there that is desperately looking for a 64bit version of such application. After finishing up with some test to make sure everything is ok i will be releasing it

Hope you guys will find it as useful as I do