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  • 17-01-2013 2:17pm
    #1
    LostCorkGuy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 445 ✭✭


    Hi ,

    I just want to check something out for my aunt , basically she gave my cousin a laptop for christmas and now wants to check up on what he's being doing with it !

    For some reason she's convinced he's playing games when he's meant to be doing his homework , he's saying that he needs the laptop to research his CSPE project
    So she asked me to find out if there's a way of checking which programs were used on the computer at a specific time ?

    Cheers


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    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,016 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    LostCorkGuy wrote: »
    Hi ,

    I just want to check something out for my aunt , basically she gave my cousin a laptop for christmas and now wants to check up on what he's being doing with it !

    For some reason she's convinced he's playing games when he's meant to be doing his homework , he's saying that he needs the laptop to research his CSPE project
    So she asked me to find out if there's a way of checking which programs were used on the computer at a specific time ?

    Cheers

    If you go into Control Panel>Programs & Features it says when the program was last used. Not very accurate though. Without installing a monitoring software there is very little you can do to see what people have been doing on the laptop.
    You could try checking the internet history (if it hasn't been wiped) for times on how long has been spent doing actual project research, and then on Facebook, Twitter etc.

    Nick

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    Gone Drinking
    Registered Users Posts: 2,809 ✭✭✭Gone Drinking


    I don't know your cousin, but I'm convinced he's probably looking at porn when he's supposed to be doing his homework.

    My advice: Tell your Auntie there's nothing to track what he's doing and that she should make him study in front of her if she's that concerned.


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    practice
    Registered Users Posts: 304 ✭✭practice


    1 Click on Start
    2 Click My Computer
    3 Click "C" Drive
    4 Click On Tools
    5 Click on Folder Options
    6 Click on View
    7 Put a Tick on Show Hidden files
    8 Close that window
    9 Click on Documents and Settings
    10 Click on his username
    11 Scrol down and find Recent Documents
    There is a list of all he has used on computer

    When done go back and remove the tick on show hidden files


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