Sign Up

Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.

Have an account? Sign In

Have an account? Sign In Now

Sign In

Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.

Sign Up Here

Forgot Password?

Don't have account, Sign Up Here

Forgot Password

Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.

Have an account? Sign In Now

You must login to ask a question.

Forgot Password?

Need An Account, Sign Up Here

Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.

Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.

Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.

Sign InSign Up

The Archive Base

The Archive Base Logo The Archive Base Logo

The Archive Base Navigation

  • SEARCH
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Blog
  • Contact Us
Search
Ask A Question

Mobile menu

Close
Ask a Question
  • Home
  • Add group
  • Groups page
  • Feed
  • User Profile
  • Communities
  • Questions
    • New Questions
    • Trending Questions
    • Must read Questions
    • Hot Questions
  • Polls
  • Tags
  • Badges
  • Buy Points
  • Users
  • Help
  • Buy Theme
  • SEARCH
Home/ Questions/Q 3610652
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Editorial Team
Asked: May 18, 20262026-05-18T21:46:45+00:00 2026-05-18T21:46:45+00:00

Is there a way to detect what application receives focus and so is currently

  • 0

Is there a way to detect what application receives focus and so is currently using from user ?

For instance, I can know when a user is using Firefox, notepad, vlc, ecc.

The intent is to tie it into a timetracking tool so that I can keep track of how much time the user spend being unproductive.

  • 1 1 Answer
  • 0 Views
  • 0 Followers
  • 0
Share
  • Facebook
  • Report

Leave an answer
Cancel reply

You must login to add an answer.

Forgot Password?

Need An Account, Sign Up Here

1 Answer

  • Voted
  • Oldest
  • Recent
  • Random
  1. Editorial Team
    Editorial Team
    2026-05-18T21:46:45+00:00Added an answer on May 18, 2026 at 9:46 pm

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms633505(v=vs.85).aspx

    this is what you’re looking for.

    BTW, I’m making the same thing.

    There are several existing solutions for this though, but they just don’t meet some of my specific demands.

    Check this out, maybe you don’t need to make it, if you find what you need
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_time_tracking_software

    • 0
    • Reply
    • Share
      Share
      • Share on Facebook
      • Share on Twitter
      • Share on LinkedIn
      • Share on WhatsApp
      • Report

Sidebar

Related Questions

Is there a way to detect if Facebook deletes your application using their API?
Is there a way for a Windows Forms application to detect if any flags
Is there a way to detect if the device I'm currently running on has
Is there a way to detect the ODBC database currently being connected to with
Is there any way to detect all the possible user activities within a WebBrowser
is there a way to detect inside the component in C# if the application
Is there a way to detect that a phone has a default application chosen
I have a ClickOnce-deployed application and I'm currently using this to detect the first
Is there a way to detect finger drags using Javascript on touch phones? I'm
In Windows XP (SP2 if necessary), is there any way to detect, from a

Explore

  • Home
  • Add group
  • Groups page
  • Communities
  • Questions
    • New Questions
    • Trending Questions
    • Must read Questions
    • Hot Questions
  • Polls
  • Tags
  • Badges
  • Users
  • Help
  • SEARCH

Footer

© 2021 The Archive Base. All Rights Reserved
With Love by The Archive Base

Insert/edit link

Enter the destination URL

Or link to existing content

    No search term specified. Showing recent items. Search or use up and down arrow keys to select an item.