PC!Watch is a Windows application to monitor the user inputs. Every key strokes are logged, even including hidden password! It is very useful if you own a PC and your children are using it to access Internet. Though the program will not block access to particular web sites, it will log a child's attempt to those sites and serve as an early warning that you should talk to the child.

PC!Watch has the following features

• User friendly design
• Seamless integration into Windows operating system, automatic-starting and completely hidden from other users
• Owner password protection
• Logging all keystrokes into each user's history log
• Analyze user history with built-in knowledge base and customizable dictionary
• Control who are to be logged
• Encrypt all information using password
• Rationing on computer usage

• The latest version 1.5 supports Win95/98/ME/NT4.0. It should work on NT 3.5, however, we have not done any test on NT 3.5.
• IMPORTANT:PC!Watch can be downloaded as one compressed file pcw15.zip. You should unzip the files to a directory, then run setup.exe from the directory to install PC!Watch.
• For NT users, you need to login as "administrator" on the local machine, now.
• Unzip pcw15.zip to a temporary directory. From this directory, run setup.exe.
• At the last screen of setup, select the check box "Yes, Launch the program file".
• At "Enter PC!Watch password", enter "guest" for your login and password.
• Restart your PC. When you see the Windows login dialog box, wait for a few seconds until you see a push button "PC!Watch" is added to the dialog box. The system will display the "Enter PC!Watch Password", enter "guest" as login name and password.
• Proceed your Windows login as usual. When the login process is completed, PC!Watch is up and running!

• For NT users, you need to login with administrator privilege.
• While PC!Wach is running, select Uninstall from File menu.
• Manually delete the installed directory and any remaining files.

The demo version is fully functioning as the registered version, except that the demo version only logs the first 800 keystrokes.

Once installed, PC!Watch is activated as soon as starting your PC. The only way and time to make PC!Watch visible is at the Windows login dialog box as explained in Installation section. If a user logins to PC!Watch, PC!Watch will be visible when Windows login is completed. If a user does not login to PC!Wactch, it runs in the background. The program has the menu structure as follows:

PC!Watch screen contains menu and toolbar to provide all major operations. Each user's log is displayed as a History View. The current user view displays any keystroke the user is entering real-time. The history view displays information in three columns: Session, Log and Alert. The log column displays a long list of characters logged. Double click on the session will display this log in a more readable format.

It is suggested to change your PC!Watch password after a period of time. This is done by select Config | Login menu.

Select Config|History to bring up Maintain History dialog box. You can exclude a particular user from being logged by PC!Watch. Enter his Windows login name in the edit box and press "Add" button. To delete a user from the "Exclusion" list, select an item in the list, and press "Del" key.

The "User History" list displays all users that are logged. The log can be big after some time. To clear the logged information for a particular user, select his login name from the list and press "Del" key.

Select Config|Options bring up Options dialog box.

Under Login tab, there are many options to control how to login PC!Watch. You can login PC!Watch by clicking on a "PC!Watch" button on Windows login dialog box, or by press a hot key sequence defined by you.

If your PC runs international Windows instead of English version or you want PC!Watch runs in completely stealth, you must check the "Don't add PC!Watch button to Windows login".

Check the "Hide PC!Watch button" checkbox. Accept the changes and restart your PC, and when Windows login dialogbox displays, click on the position where PC!Watch used to be, the system will bring up PC!Watch login dialog box. This is a powerful feature that makes other users unaware of PC!Watch.

You can also set PC!Watch button in any position in the Windows login dialog box. Make sure the "Default Position" checkbox is un-checked. Enter the x and y pixel position relative to the top-left corner of the login dialog box. If "Default Position" is checked, both x and y will set to "SYSTEM".

The field "Wait Windows Login" defaults to five (5) seconds. PC!Watch starts as soon as Windows starts. If it does not detect the Windows login screen within the time set in this field, PC!Watch will show up. The amount of time for Windows login dialog to appear varies from machine to machine. If you want PC!Watch runs hidden, you need to check the "Hide button" checkbox as mentioned previously, and choose an appropriate value for the "Wait…" field. For example, if you set it to 30 seconds, it means you have to wait 30 seconds after Windows login dialog appears before you can click on "PC!Watch" button(most likely hidden) to login PC!Watch.

Check the "Activation Hot Keys" and define a hot keys sequence. The hot keys sequence will be used in the following situation later: While PC!Watch is running in the background, holding down the "Ctrl" key and press the hot keys sequence to bring up the PC!Watch login dialog box.

Under Analysis tab, you select the user age groups so that the system will use appropriate built-in knowledge base for analyzing logged keystrokes. You can also enter some key words at the "Use User Defined Word List" and check the checkbox. Press "OK" button to save your changes.

Under Computer Usage tab, you can specify computer usage limit. This can be a daily limit or weekly limit, or both. The limit can apply to the computer as whole, or to any individual users. Owner can be excluded from this restriction. When the usage limit is about to be reached, approximately "Warn Ahead" minutes in advance, a warning window will display to ask the user to shutdown the computer. If "Rationing Action" is "Shutdown", it will automatically shutdown the PC.

Select File|Analyse menu to analyze logged information. The results are displayed in the Alert column in the history views.

Select File|Uninstall menu to uninstall PC!Watch.

PC!Watch is a shareware product. By paying a small fee and registering the product, you will support the operation of our company and help us to bring to you more products. We will notify all registered users about all product upgrades. You can order PC!Watch using major credit cards via several secure online order systems. Please visit http://business.fortunecity.com/hunt/673/pcwatch.html for details.

Step 1: Visit our WWW page: http://business.fortunecity.com/hunt/673 for pricing information. Standard price is $30 per PC license.

Step 2: Send payment check with the Product Order Form. The form is available at the end of this file.

Step 3: We will send you the unlock code.

Step 4: Select File|Register box, enter User Name, User ID and Unlock code and select "OK" button. Please note that the user name and user ID are assigned by us, not your Windows user name, neither may it be your PC!Watch login name.

PC!Watch uses the following Microsoft DLLs:

1. Un-installation will display a message when completed.
2. The PC!Watch uses non-debug version of Microsoft DLLs. Now the program is about 70K smaller, it may solve the lockup problem during boot-up on some PC.

1. Version 1.2 -- 3rd release, June 7, 1999
1. Fix the problem that requesting unlock code at first time login.
2. Add a basic built-in dictionary for checking porn Internet site.
3. The about dialogbox will display registered user name and user ID.

1. Version 1.21 -- 4th release, June 20, 1999 (The About dialog will show version 1.2)
1. Help menu will display pcwhelp.html file in Windows Explorer.
2. PC!Watch login dialog box prompts first time user login name and password. First time user should use "guest" as his login and password. Future version will restrict user name and password's length to 8 letters.
3. Double click the session (the first column) in history view will display session dialog box, replacing all non-printable letters with white spaces.

1. Version 1.3 -- 5th release, June 27, 1999
1. Enhanced user interface.
2. PC!Watch works on NT4.0
3. Add computer usage rationing control. The owner can limit the daily and weekly usage. The limits can apply to the computer or to any individual.
2.  Version 1.3, Build 12 -- 6th release, July 11, 1999
1. Add "Wait Windows Login" under Login tab of Config|Login menu. This allows PC!Watch to wait for Windows login dialogbox.
3.   Version 1.3, Build 13 -- 6th release, July 12, 1999
1. Unregistered version allows 800 keystrokes in the log.
2. When 800 keystrokes have been logged with unregistered version, it will frequently display a message box instead of exiting.
4.    Version 1.3, Build 14 -- 7th release, July 19, 1999
1. Fix the problem that PC!Watch did not log keystrokes on some PC.
2. Fix a bug introduced by "Wait Windows Login" in build 12. "Wait Windows login" is fully functioning now.
5.     Version 1.3, Build 15 -- 8th release, July 25, 1999
1. Add Hot key sequence to allow owner to make PC!Watch visable.
6.      Version 1.4, Build 16 -- 9th release, July 30, 1999
1. Bug fixed: PC!Watch did not display for certain hot keys sequence.
2. Bug fixed: Analysis on current session is not working.
7.       Version 1.5, Build 16 -- May, 2002

Please email us all bug to jminchen@hotmail.com. Tell us what you like to include in the products. As you can see, we are constantly revising the product and you ideas will be valued most by us.

Please visit our web site for latest FAQ.

Q: I install PC!Watch by running Setup.exe, but it does not work.

A: PC!Watch installation files are stored two separate ZIP file: pcwdll.zip and pcwatch.zip. Most people only download pcwatch.zip from download.com and proceed with installation. PC!Watch will not start because missing DLLs. You need to download pcwdll.zip(http://business.fortunecity.com/hunt/673/products/pcwdll.zip) and install these DLLs to your Windows system directory (usually c:\windows\system) and proceed with PC!Watch's setup.

Q: When PC!Watch starts first time, it asks for user name and password. But I don't know my login and password.

A: PC!Watch login name and password are chosen by the owner(the installer). These are not your Windows login or PC!Watch registration user ID. Most people may use their Windows login as PC!Watch login name. We suggest you use "guest" as login and password, you can change them later.

Q: PC!Watch won't start.

A: If a computer has many programs to run during Windows startup, PC!Watch may not start properly. Try to remove some of these programs and restart your PC.

Q: I don't want people to see the PC!Watch button in Windows login dialogbox. Can I hide the button?

A: You can hide this button. Login to PC!Watch. Under Login tab, check the "Hide PC!Watch..." checkbox. Next time Windows starts, the button is hidden. However, you still can click on the place of the hidden button to login PC!Watch.