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Checking computer usage history.

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Firepac

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Is there anyway to check computer usage history? I'm not talking about browser history but rather what programs/games were used. Does Windows 7 have anything native like this?
 
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If you mean to audit a past event like if you suspect somebody tampered with your system, dunno but I kind of doubt it unless you previously configured something to log such activity. But if you are looking to log such activity in the future, on an on-going basis or whatever, and don't mind getting down and dirty, there is the Performance Monitor tool in the Control Panel->Administrative Tools, that lets you do things like monitor and log a vast amount of selected activities. Prepare to do some heavy reading to understand how to make it work though. Probably be much easier to find a 3rd party tool specifically for monitoring/logging process starts.

Or, there is the audit feature. Never messed with it before so I can't help much, but this link might help: http://social.technet.microsoft.com...-in-windows-7-and-windows-server-2008-r2.aspx

Found some thing that may make it easier; note haven't tried this, but it should work: open secpol.msc (search and execute in the start menu), go to Local Policies->Audit Policy->Audit Process Tracking; select 'success' auditing. Then, there should be process creation success audit reports in the event viewer under Windows Logs->Security.
 
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Have you looked into some keylogger software?. Its pretty simple in regards to keeping basic info. They also give you images of what was accessed. Well just throwing that out there :)
 
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