Windows Usage Report

Question

0.00/5 (No votes)

See more:

hello,

I need to get detailed information about pc usage like

1) How long its used?

2) idle time

3) used apps and Usage duration

4)Internet usage and websites visited

No clue about where to start.. Somebody please help

Posted 21-Sep-15 23:08pm

Jackson K T

Add a Solution

1 solution

Add a Solution

Add your solution here

Treat my content as plain text, not as HTML

Preview 0

…

Existing Members

Sign in to your account

...or Join us

Download, Vote, Comment, Publish.

Your Email
Password
Forgot your password?

Your Email
This email is in use. Do you need your password?
Optional Password

I have read and agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
Please subscribe me to the CodeProject newsletters

When answering a question please:

Read the question carefully.
Understand that English isn't everyone's first language so be lenient of bad spelling and grammar.
If a question is poorly phrased then either ask for clarification, ignore it, or edit the question and fix the problem. Insults are not welcome.
Don't tell someone to read the manual. Chances are they have and don't get it. Provide an answer or move on to the next question.

Let's work to help developers, not make them feel stupid.

This content, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Mike (Prof. Chuck) · Answer 1 · 2015-09-22T20:45:00

Based on this information it's hard to help.
How is "used apps and usage duration" defined?
- How long does the process exist?
- How long is it in foreground?
- GUI processes only?

define "how long is a pc used"?
- how long is the user logged in?
- at least a mousemove every x seconds counts as "used"?
- when does "idle time" start?

To start:
- Write a windows service that does checks in background threads.
- capture mouse position and keyboard state -> if it changed, the pc is in use... if it didnt change for x seconds/minutes, start idle counting
- capture a list of running processes and use winAPI to get the foreground window (this is what you could call "app usage") and measure the time per window.
- find a window named "edge","chrome","firefox","internet explorer" and just capture the title bar, so you get at least the name of the website (and not the real url) - name should be fine.

Just launch some background worker threads in your service, checking all of the above and run some internal dictionaries/lists of the items counting and measuring the time.

I hope this helps you to get started.

regards,
Mike