Logging who uses your computer

[Paul-the-Pen]

At work we all use laptops (5 of us) WINDOWS XP Home edition, none of
which have passwords (yeah I know but it's my boss!). Anyway, I think
someone is snooping around on my PC, I think just looking to see any
contacts of mine, notes I've made etc, is there away of knowing if
someone has switched my computer on - not necessarily written
anything, but just had a look around? I assume there must be some log
file somewhere that records when a computer has been switched on

 

[John John - MVP]

Look in the Event Log, you will see that certain events are logged every
time the computer is started.

John

 

[Twayne]

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At work we all use laptops (5 of us) WINDOWS XP Home edition, none of
which have passwords (yeah I know but it's my boss!). Anyway, I think
someone is snooping around on my PC, I think just looking to see any
contacts of mine, notes I've made etc, is there away of knowing if
someone has switched my computer on - not necessarily written
anything, but just had a look around? I assume there must be some log
file somewhere that records when a computer has been switched on

Event Viewer will show you every time the computer is booted. Start;
Programs; Administrative Tools; Event Viewer.
If you have trouble spotting it, note the time and then do a REstart:
Look at Event Viewer for the first event at that time; that's the bootup.