Monitor active time of a process in windows OS

I wrote a simple script that will run on any windows operating system silently, then log if the specified application is running (eg. notepad.exe), if it is not running it will not update the log and the reason is to avoid large generated log file.

<<< logger.bat >>> @echo off set processname=notepad.exe                     set MYPATH=c:\a set LOGFILE=%processname%_%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2%%date:~10,4%.log set PATHLOG=%MYPATH%\%LOGFILE% set _my_datetime=%date%_%time% echo %_my_datetime%, Searching for %processname%... >> %PATHLOG% :loop set _my_datetime=%date%_%time% for /f "tokens=1 delims=," %%a in ('tasklist /fo csv ^|FINDSTR /I /C:"%processname%"') do call :searchprocess %%a ping -n 6 127.0.0.1>NUL goto :loop :searchprocess    echo %_my_datetime%, %success% >>  %PATHLOG%&goto :eof

<<< monitor_notepad.vbs >> Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WshShell.Run chr(34) & "c:\a\logger.bat" & Chr(34), 0 Set WshShell = Nothing

You just have to create shortcut to startup folder.