Kid Watch

Notes from ClifNotes, Mar 2008, permalink PC Activity Monitoring

What is it?

This is a nice and simple way to monitor what's going on with kids. Kid Watch takes a screen shot once every minute to show you what's going on at the time. It's easy to set up and nobody will even notice that it's running.

What I'd like to change:

The only features I'd like to see added are the ability to hide the program from the Task Manager, and also to store the screen shots as JPG instead of BMP files. Kid Watch also uses the Windows clipboard and I'd like to see this program find some other way to create the image files.

Tips:

Kid Watch stores the images in a folder called "SnapShots" which is created in the same location as the kidwatch.exe file. You can view the images any time by unhiding Kid Watch with the key combination of CTRL + SHIFT + P and then clicking the "Snap Shot Viewer" button.

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Quote from the website

In a nutshell - runs invisible to the user: takes snap shots (images) of the ACTIVE window at the interval you determine/ set. This allows you to preview (via the included Image Viewer) what the kids are doing; thus, giving you (the parents) insight on if any steps need to be taken to PROTECT YOUR KID!

http://www.code-it.com/KidWatch.htm

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