Have you ever been away from your PC and wondered if anyone else had used it while you were gone? Have you ever had to let anyone into your house while you were gone? A plumber or electrician? How about the carpet cleaners? Or even a friend or relative.... Hey! If all they're doing is playing Hearts, then it's no problem. But what if they were snooping into something else?
I wrote a very low level security program to let you know if anyone other than yourself has booted your PC. D_T (which stands for Date & Time) keeps a log file indicating the Date & Time that Windows was last started. The accessory file StartUp.Exe is used to create an entry in your Registry to run D_T every time Windows is started. StartUp only needs to be run once to initiate the automatic logging.
Note: If you decide to remove D_T from your system, remember to run StartUp.Exe first. That will remove the key from the Registry so that Windows will not try to start it the next time you boot the PC.
D_T creates a text file called D_T.Log that you may open with any text editor (NotePad, WordPad, etc.). It adds a single line with the Date & Time each time Windows is started. Below is an example.
Date Time
2008/01/12 07:46:41
2008/01/12 11:51:23
2008/01/12 17:24:35
2008/01/13 07:44:19
If you check the log and notice the boot time of 11:51:23 AM, as in the example above, you will know that someone booted your PC while you were out. Note: The Dates & Times will be written in the format you have chosen through Windows.
You may perform simple maintenance on the Log file any time you wish by deleting the topmost lines. Or if you prefer, you may simply delete the entire Log file (D_T.Log) and the program will create a new one the next time you start Windows. I suggest that you do not create a shortcut to D_T.Log because that may make it too easy for someone else to find.
D_T will not take up any system resources because it runs, adds a single line to D_T.Log, then quits. The whole proccess takes less than a second and you don't even see it run.
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Note: StartUp.Exe needs to be installed and run once in order to make D_T run automatically at System Bootup.
DownLoad your free copy of StartUp.Exe
DownLoad the StartUp Visual Basic source files.