Learn How To Find out if Someone is Secretly using your PC: Secure your personal documents being illegally accessed by another person by checking all the logs and details of the activities that had been done on your PC using the best possible ways.
You may not want to compromise your privacy by giving your personal computer to other as when you do so all your media and other secret files and their access is in other hands and you can’t make sure that the other person is well using it. So better is to do some measures that will help you to know about the person that was using your computer. Yes, it’s possible on your windows PC, you can check out about the person that was accessing your computer in your absence. So have a look on complete guide discussed below to proceed.
#1 Method : Using Windows Event Viewer
Step 1: Go to Start and Run or press consecutively both Windows Keys+R. If you are running the latest version later than XP, you have to type the following in smart search present in the start menu.
Step 2: In the search box, type ‘eventvwr.msc‘ and press Enter.
Step 3: The Event Viewer Screen will come up but if you are using Windows Vista and UAC pops up, You must choose Continue.
Step 4: Open the System Log i.e a log that keeps a record of currently used data with dates and times. By this data, you can easily find out when your computer was last used.
#2 Method: USB Deview –View all installed / connected USB Devices
USB Deview is a small program that records all USB devices that are connected to your computer currently and even all USB devices that are previously used. When a pen drive is plugged in your PC, you can view the full history of pen drive using this cool tool.
You can also use USBDeview on a remote computer, as long as you login to that computer with admin user. Download: USBDeview
See Also
- USB over Ethernet – USB Network Gate enables work with the remote USB devices over Ethernet (Internet/LAN/WAN) as if they were plugged into your own machine. It helps you share a USB device over a network among multiple computers so people from all over the world (or your office) can use it. (Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux)
- NK2Edit – Edit, merge and fix the AutoComplete files (.NK2) of Microsoft Outlook.
- DevManView – Alternative to device manager of Windows.
- WirelessNetView – Monitor wireless networks in your area.
#3 Method: Recent Places
Recent Places shows all recent files and folders in your Window PC. By this, you can watch what unnamed users access on your computer. What files and folders are accessed by unidentified users?
#4 Method: VLC History
If anyone has installed VLC video player and is playing video from it, you can see the history by right clicking on the VLC icon or by checking the recent history. By this, you can have a look towards the history whom the anonymous user has accessed and has started playing on your computer.
#5 Open Saved Files
Open Save Files View is a simple tool that shows you the list of all files that are previously searched upon or are opened with the standard open save dialog box of Windows. If any anonymous user is accessing your files or modifies your any files, you can access his/her action by this tool.
Download – Open Save Files
So this is all about How To Find Out If Someone Is Secretly Using Your Computer. Use these guides and you can watch out the activities being going on your PC and also the countermeasures that you can take for this. Hope you like the guide, do share with others too. Leave a comment below if you have any related queries with this.
