PC Usage

[pancake]

I have an office audit to complete in the next few weeks to see if we can move staff around and double some up on desks.

What I want to know is there a way that I can interrogate a PC to look for periods of activity and inactivity so I know how much a PC is being used ?

Thanks.

 

[maxthedork]

Try looking in the Security log in Event Viewer, it should tell you when someone logs in and out.

 

[pancake]

Unfortunately that won't work, as our users can be lazy beggars and leave their PC switched on for days on end, and lock the screen. Also I need to know how long they were using the PC for not just if they were logged in or not.

Thanks

 

[LWComputingMVP]

There's no absolutely certain way you can do this without writing some program that monitors the activity of the mouse and keyboard (I know of no such app).

One thing you could try is using System Monitor (Performance Monitor) to track usage over a period of time - it will create a log file you can later examine. Of course, this could take considerable time analyzing all the information, even in a small company.