One of my friends asked me today if there was a utility that could run as a service to maintain statistics on system usage. I said I am not aware of any but that I'd post this here in case anyone else has some SUGGESTIONS.

Here are statistics he seems to have a need to know:

1.) Computer Usage Time vs Idle Time
2.) Bandwidth Usage graphed out or showing a 24 hour period that shows usage in 1 hr intervals
3.) Listing of all exe's run at the local system for a 24 hour period
4.) Listing of all websites that have been visited for a 24 hour period and date/time stamps
5.) System Resource Use in 24 hour period showing say a graph or statistics of averages down to 1 hr intervals for % of CPU and memory used.

In regards to the 5 items above, I know of a widget that can keep track of how much upload/download has happened and can be reset back to 0 manually daily in reference to the REQUEST for #2, but it does not show a graph for 24 hr period.

In regards to #4 you can set up a log in most routers that will show where the computer went out to in a 24 hr period unless there is so much activity that it exceeds the logging capacity of the router.

In regards to #5 I have heard of some people using dxdiag/x systemlog.txt to export to a text file system information, and I suppose you could have this trigger once an hour as a scheduled task and then make a custom script that can parse this text file for the free memory or other statistics and have that then supply timed intervals of system use.

It sounds like he is hoping there is 1 or 2 utilities out there that can do this without having to achieve this from 5 different methods.

Anyone have any suggestions, or should I tell him that he is going to have to have 5 different methods to gather this info, some of which may have to be custom programmed because programs dont ALREADY EXIST to do that?

His explanation for that there should be one that does all this and more is because 30+ years ago when he was working with mainframes there was all sorts of statistical data on the system as well as users were charged for their computer time for mainframe use, and so there was a service that kept track of how long and how much resources were used, and so that was 30+ years ago and something like that should exist today. I told him that most people would care less as to these statistics today as for you dont have a mainframe and lots of people trying to get onto a single multimillion dollar mainframe for their 30 minutes of time to be billed etc. Since everyone has their own computers these days the time it is in use or not in use pretty much doesnt affect the electric bill much as long as the computer is powered and running when not in use.

So it seems as though he wants a feature of early mainframes of 30+ years ago on his local machine.