CueWatcher Release 1.04

Concept and Design
John C. Wang

Support
The Intelligent Mobile Robot Group of
the National Taiwan University

Project CueWatcher works on the Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 platforms to record user behavior for offline analysis.

Click here to download zipped installation files (29 KB).

Files in This Distribution

File name	Content
ReadMe.txt	Read me file
CueWatcher.reg	Configuration file
CueWatcher.exe	The main executable
WatchDog.dll	Event monitor module

Installation

Create the directory "C:\Program Files\CueWatcher"
Copy all four files in to the directory created in step 1.
In Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 (or later), double click on file "CueWatcher.reg" to configure the system.
Reboot to activate CueWatcher.

NOTE: To remove CueWatcher, simply delete the four files and reboot.

Running CueWatcher

CueWatcher is automatically started each time a user logs in to the computer. An icon will appear on the Windows Task Bar to indicate that user actions are being recorded. The recording can be stopped by clicking on the Task Bar icon and choosing "Close" from the pop-up menu.

Customization

The configuration file for CueWatcher looks like the following in a text editor:

------------------------------------------------------------------
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ideae\CueWatcher]
"LogFile"="C:\\LogFile.cwr"
"KeyObfuscator"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"CueWatcher"="C:\\Program Files\\CueWatcher\\CueWatcher.exe"
------------------------------------------------------------------

Entry "LogFile" indicate the file that will be used to store log info. Change this to a drive that has a large capacity.

Entry "KeyObfuscator" indicates the keycode mask that can be used to hide confidential keyboard entries. The default value applies no obfuscation.

Entry "CueWatcher" indicates the location of the CueWatcher program.

Contact John C. Wang for any questions concerning what you read on this page.