Viewing Application Access Date
Or more specifically, trying to view a list of dates pertaining to a .exe file. Not just the most recent time it was accessed, but all times. Any ideas? Run History under the Registry Editor is just a bunch of garbled compute code that I can not make heads or tails of.
Run History as in; HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerUserAssist
Any help would be appreciated.
May 2, 2011
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Yes, this would require some kind of management program that has a "logging" feature to create a log of execution or access times and dates. Unfortunately I'm not familiar with anything for Windows that does that but I imagine some creative Googling might turn up something useful.
For windows, this falls into file server software, I haven't dealt very much in that area. But I had played with the system audit/account feature on Linux.
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If you want to do this to only a selected few files or folders, maybe you can write a simple batch file to capture the date/time using the dir /T command and append it to a file in a fixed time interval and run it as a background task, it should not be that CPU intensive.
Are you knowledgeable in any 3rd party applications regarding this?
I don't think Window has that feature, unless its provided by a 3rd party apps. It only retain creation/last access/last modify time per file/folder. The feature you are asking sounded like auditing feature in Linux or UNIX, but they will also needed to turn on and configure.
Sorry, I'm using Win 7 64 Bit Home Premium.
I'd just like to reiterate what I stated in my thread title. I'm looking to access a LIST of DATES the program has been accessed. Preferably up to the last 5-10.
Which windows you are using? For XP & Window 7 (not sure about Vista):
dir /TC - creation time
dir /TA - last accessed time
dir /TW - last written time
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