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Asked: 2026-05-23T11:17:36+00:00

I want to create an application that able to calculate the total time the

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I want to create an application that able to calculate the total time the user (i.e. myself) spent on a particular application, for example Firefox. And this application should display warning message if the user spent a lot of time on Firefox (for example 1 hour or more)

Reason: I’m a VB.NET developer. During my working hours, my main tool is Visual Studio and I suppose to do coding. But I need Firefox occasionally to access internet (particularly SO and other sites) to find solutions for my programming problems. The problem is I addicted to SO and SO sucks my time for hours until I have forgotten that I suppose to continue coding and not browsing the SO site.

My question: How to calculate the total time a user spending on an open application like Firefox?

Update:

I need to play a song as warning message to myself if I stay too long on Firefox. My intent is to create a winform or windows service to achieve this

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  1. Editorial Team

    This is not a programming problem. This is a discipline problem. My advises:

    1. First of all, don’t rely on application to tell you what to do.
    2. Secondly, the application can warn you but ultimately you can disable it, turn it off.
    3. Thirdly, my suggestion to your real problem i.e. no discipline and poor work ethic is to put up a small banner in front of your monitor with this text “Focus on your work” or “Code it now” or “SO is evil“
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