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How to view which folders someone opened on my laptop


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I have a hunch my boyfriend checks my history and reads my messenger chat logs. How can I see which folders he opened and where he went?
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That is a coincidence, the same question was posted a few weeks ago by a college lecturer who thought the students had been looking at his computer whilst he was on a coffee break, to pre-read the exam questions he had set.
If you have to check up on him, to see what he has looked at, I presume he will not be your boyfriend for much longer.
Go Control Panel, Administrative functions, event viewer, applications and Office Sessions if appropriate.
Of course if he is really clever he will have cleared all the logs.

Edited by Macboatmaster, 30 May 2010 - 02:38 PM.

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My Event Viewer 's application has no Office Sessions - only unintelligible (to me) logs of presumable errors?

Thanks for the relationship advice :) I have to be sure he has been reading chat logs before I can ask him why!
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Pls see attached but it will as I said only show Office documents
Recent documents folder if it is being recorded
History of course on the browser for websites
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My event viewer only has the first four items - Application, Security, System and Internet Explorer. WTH! Can you tell me how I can get the rest?

Thanks!
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You will only have the items in Event Viewer particular to your computer.
History and Recent Documents as I said and pls see this
http://techrepublic....threadID=201285
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try here...
it would be much simpler to just log off your account (assuming your account is password protected) and have him log onto the guest account...
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