Application monitoring software

Mixie

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I'm just wondering if someone can recommend me a freeware application that would track/monitor the usage of a single or multiple applications on a windows PC?

Ideally speaking, it would log application startup times, end times and calculate 'session' durations, and total times, on a weekly/monthly basis.

I don't want much do i?

Google turned up a few results, but couldn't find one with all of the above and thought one of you might know of a suitable app.

Thanks in advance.

fractal

You could try something like:
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@processes2monitor = ('OUTLOOK','firefox','pr0nviewer'); #Application list to monitor
$timeout = 1; #Num seconds between monitoring activity
$outfile = "c:\temp\outfile-"; #where should log files be written (this could be a network share)

open(OF,$outfile);

while(1)
{
$output = `tasklist /FI "USERNAME eq usernametospyon"`;
@output = split("\n",$output);

foreach (@output)
{
@temp = split('.exe|.EXE',$_);
$appname = @temp[0];

foreach $proc (@processes2monitor)
{
if("$proc" eq "$appname")
{
$time = localtime(time());
print OF "$time,$appname\n";
}
}
}
sleep($timeout);
}
close(OF);
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Using that you could write the logfile to a network share and analyse it using Excel or summat? you could also run it as a service on a WinNT/2k/XP machine using instsrv/srvany (google them) so its non-intrusive... That script depends on perl being on the host machine but you could write it in pretty much any lang.. Also do a tasklist /? to find out how to get a tasklist from a remote machine...

Mixie

Thanks fractal.

I am prepared to write my own solution if I have to, in fact I have almost finished up as is - I was just hoping for a more "tried and trusted" app.

Oh well