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This is a question for supervisors of equipment :

What sort of monitoring programs are available for documenting usage on
computers attached to microscopes?  The built-in Windows utilities just
don't do it for me.

Every user in our facility has their own login ID, password and I would
like to record whenever they launch specific programs and when they exit
from a program. This can be used for billing, for usage stats and for
identifying "anonymous" (after-hours, without booking, improperly
trained) users. If this is too complicated - some programs have
components which launch from several locations simultaneously - then
simply logon/logoff would be fine.

I asked this question a few years ago but it was for an NT OS - very
difficult, I'm hoping XP will have a simpler solution.

Thanks,
Judy

Judy Trogadis
Bio-Imaging Coordinator
St. Michael's Hospital, 7Queen
30 Bond St.
Toronto, ON M5B 1W8, Canada
ph:  416-864-6060  x6337
pager: 416-685-9219
fax: 416-864-6043
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