[Jim[_8_]]

On 07/06/2012 18:26, Paul wrote:

It sounds like you might need to reassess whether or not you trust the
people you loan your computer to in the first place before you employ a
technological solution. Also, ensure that the people you loan it to
trust you enough to behave wisely with the information you are
collecting on them (you _would_ tell them you're copying everything they
do on the computer, right?).

That said, I'm sure there's a relatively trivial way with Word VBA to
save a duplicate copy of a file whenever it is saved. I suppose you
could also look into a keylogger, which would capture everything that is
typed on the keyboard. Regardless of whether or how you choose to
monitor the use of your cmputer, I'd recommend outlining the uses that
you deem appropriate with those who borrow it, and make clear that the
priviledge will be revoked should they violate such expectations.

There are 4 people i lend it too, 2 of them i know i can trust the other
2 i'm unsure and they are the ones i want to check on, I would not tell
them what i'd be doing as there would be no point, once i know i can
trust them then i'd be happy to leave the alone but i have to make sure
first, key logger is an option but i'd rather not install any more
software hence just keeping a copy of each file.