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Windows XP log file question

by xoail Aug 17, 2007 1:16AM PDT

Hi,

I am working in Lab where a lot of people use my computer (which is connected to a hardware for research purpose). I need a way to monitor the activity of my system (who logged in, how much time has been spent, etc). For this, I need a little help on how to go about it. Is there something already out there which will help me?

thanks.

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Research the EVENT VIEWER
by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Aug 17, 2007 1:25AM PDT

By adding what you want monitored to the EVENT VIEWER (link about in a second) you then have these items to ponder.

Read http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363681.aspx since you may want to know the user name for the event. There are other articles as well to read.

Bob

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too technical
by xoail Aug 17, 2007 2:20AM PDT

This sounds too technical for me.
I was hoping to see if there is already a 3rd party program that exists or something that can be easily done.

Anyways thanks for help.. I will try to research more on this.

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The event viewer is a little technical.
by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Aug 17, 2007 5:17AM PDT

You seemed to want to know not only the "event" but who which is why I only supplied one link since that trivia is hard for some to find. There is software to help manage turning on events to log in the EVENT VIEWER but my bet is that you'll keep coming back the the EVENT VIEWER as you search for your solution.

Bob

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little want
by xoail Aug 17, 2007 5:22AM PDT

All I want to do is log user logins on my machine. I just wanna be able to say who worked for how many hours with in specified date.

If this is something that can only be achieved by programming, what would be the best way to go about?
Event Viewer sounds good, but will it serve my purpose.

Thanks bob for help!

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The way I read it was...
by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Aug 17, 2007 5:42AM PDT

The user didn't login to your machine at the keyboard but used something over the network. User logins and outs are easy to log in the Event Viewer so that's just a matter of making sure that is enabled.

Across the network things are not as simple so we have to find what events happen and use those.

There are Event Viewer Report Software(s) so you can research those since many don't like the Event Viewer interface and there is no report program for pretty printing supplied.

Bob

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