News and product release history | SoftActivity

Activity Monitor 4.0 released

June 14th, 2007

works on Windows Vista now; does not support Windows 98 anymore.
record email sent and received by users. Includes POP3/SMTP mail using email client software
record chat conversations in instant messengers. Supports MSN Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo messenger, ICQ, IRC. Both sides of all conversations are recorded;
new format of log files
SoftActivity Log Viewer for viewing recorded logs
Central Log Database for keeping recordings from all computers in one location
Automatic collecting of logs and screenshots from all computers. Collection schedule can be adjusted.
Refreshed program look
improved support of international characters

July 7th, 2006

Support for multi-monitor computers. Activity Monitor now shows whole virtual screen for such computers on screenshots and in monitoring window.
Fixed: Option “Offline Logging – Delete log file and start new one” did not save properly
Fixed: Rare problems when working under or monitoring Windows users with limited access rights

April 7th, 2006

February 24th, 2006

Activity Monitor now records websites visited in all browsers. Previously worked only with IE
Minimize to system tray option. Allows you to keep Activity Monitor open for a long time without having its button in task pane
Improved: If screenshots from remote systems are copied by schedule, no file-overwrite or file-not-found prompts appear
Remote installation of Agent improved. If a non-administrator user is logged on the remote computer, no message is displayed to him and Agent installation succeeds. Monitoring of this user can start right away
Improved support of Fast User Switching on Windows XP. If the user has switched to other account Activity Monitor switches to monitoring of this active account
Fixed: Sometimes offline screenshots were taken even if computers was not used, creating a lot pictures of screensaver, for example
Improved: when Activity Monitor reopens monitoring windows on startup it also restores screen zoom and autorefresh state. Basically, if you were monitoring several computers and then closed Activity Monitor you will continue from same place when you open Activity Monitor next day.
New: “Delete log file and start the new one when size limit reached” option in Offline Logging settings
New: Actions on multiple computers. Send instant message, restart, shut down, run command, etc. on all selected computers at once.

December 23rd, 2004

Process/program description is shown on Applications and Foreground tabs and in offline log files. It makes it easy to identify what program user works with. Program description also appears in logs exported to HTML and Excel.
Agent installation now requires Administrator rights
Compatibility issues of Activity Monitor Agent on Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Windows firewall have been resolved
Improved design of offline log exported to HTML
Activity Monitor works with Agent of only version 3.8. You should reinstall older versions of Agent on the remote computers.
Activity Monitor will let you know if it finds Agents of older versions on computers in LAN or in list
Multiple minor improvements

September 7th, 2004

Agent works now with Windows XP Service Pack 2 firewall. When you install Agent it will create a firewall rule that allows to monitor this computer. You must install it when logged on as the user with local Administrator permissions for this purpose. This will also work when you install Agent remotely.
Fixed the bug when Offline Logging Options did not change on the remote computer if user with less then Power User permissions was logged on
Fixed the bug when computers from other subnet appeared offline in Activity Monitor if another Monitor was running on that subnet
Minor improvements

May 7th, 2004

Windows Server 2003 compatibility issue has been solved
Fixed problem with some computers going offline in list on large number of computers
Activity Monitor will show network user name in addition to Windows username if it’s different, for example on Novell network.
Minor improvements and fixes