How can you tell when a person signed on to a PC

[anoble1]

I work in a place where everyone has a network profile. Everyone uses Windows XP Pro. How can I tell when my Co-worker logged into his machine? Event logs did not help much. There must be an easier way.

[Aimee Bailey]

Hypothetically if I was asked to do this, I may write a simple application that sends an email with the current user's name, then have it run silently on login by adding a registry value to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run

I don't believe there is need for any complicated API :)

[anoble1]

That sure would be nice, I have no clue how to do that. Might you have a sample?

[Aimee Bailey]

LoginNotifier.zip

Here is a basic example of how you could do it, this application sends an email and closes. If you have done any programming before, it should be as simple as to open the solution and fill in the details needed to send the email. However if you have not worked with, or do not have visual studio. then no fear, this project was made using Visual Studio C# Express 2010, which can be downloaded free from...

> www.microsoft.com/express/Downloads/

Also to add the key to registry, you can use regedit.exe found in the windows folder, however id reccomend you google this subject if you are not that familiar.