Software Last Used Date

[Perkins]

I am doing some cost cutting measures and need to reduce the number of software installs/purchases. The fastest way for me to do this is to see if there is software loaded on the systems that has not been used in XX days. Can a report like that be done with this software (Report Builder)? Or does anyone have another way to get the information from across the network?

Thanks!

[Gene_Galaxo]

the keys reports only if you start a application from the startmenu. No change for accurate timestamps. You must run a service for looking for new processes. Thats the only way.

[Gene_Galaxo]

You must read the SlowInfoCache. Here Windows store information about last used, startcounter, ....
You can find information here http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1173443,00.asp
The information are written if a user start a Application from the startmenu or from the desktop.

[Hemoco]

Gene_Galaxo wrote:
You must read the SlowInfoCache.

We did some tests to implement this is Lansweeper but the data was far from accurate for most applications so we decide not to use it.