We are computer administrators, we want to know some users' computer usage( especially work hours and break time).
I tested this software, and It looks like that all users need to run the program at least once in order to start tracking.
We don't want to ask each user's password one by one and do the set up for them.
We also don't want to let the user do the set up themselves.
we want to set it up within an Admin account, and do the set up for all users who use this computer.
After that, each user who logon on this computer will be tracked by ManicTime.(default database are in their profile folder)


Are all possible? If this works, we would consider to buy the pro version for some of our company employees, since our purpose is to monitor users' computer usages.

Thank you for your reply.
We really want this program to run on the background, since we don;t want users to know that we are tracking on their work hours and computer usages.
We are working in multi-OS environment, I tested it on WIN7,Vista and XP.

For Sharing Databbase, we put database on C:\
In XP, the following message will pop up while User B run this program(previously set up by User A).
It looks like that it's a permission problem, but I already manually assign permission to "Everyone" for the both Database folder and the Program File folder.
However, the Sharing Database works very well on Vista and Win7.

For Auto Start ManicTime, I log on with User A, and put this program to computer startup for all user and I also set it up for "HIDE SYSTEM TRAY ICON"
Then UserC ( never log on to this computer before) log on to this computer. I checked Task Manager, Manictime.exe is running, and It SHOWED UP on system Tray(should not be). I didn;t click it and then I open a WORD file and then I log off.( pretending i am a user and I don't know this program is installed on my PC)

I log back on with User A, it looks like Manictime didn;t track what i just did with UserC.

so this program really need the user to click it at least once to let it to start tracking even though it's running on the background. is that right?

One more question, under Settings > General, I unchecked both "user Decimal hour format" options, and Click "Clear Statistics Cache" and restart my PC; however, the format still look like, (Day Start 9.48 ; Date End 18.61).
how to change it back something like, 9:21 and 18:34 format.

Edited by user Thursday, January 20, 2011 1:08:57 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Thanks for the reply. I think we may consider buying it for the next version.
Hopefully, you can get something like the multi-users version, so Admin account can set it up and track the whole computer's activities without users' notices.

Some progress.

What I would do is set up ManicTime Server, then configure the client so that each user sends the data to the server.

If you do this then on the server you will be able to get reports by users and machines. So you would get something like

User 1
Machine 1
Machine 2

User 2
Machine 1
Machine 2

User 3
Machine 1

If you decide to use it, we can take a look if we can reverse this so it would be like

Machine 1
User 1
User 2
User 3
Machine 2
User 1
....

Then you could get reports for the machine, not user then machine. The stats are the same, its more of an UI issue than anything else.

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You could also set up only one database for all users, you can do that in the deployment xml which you can generate once you set up the server. (Set a fixed path for the database, like c:\manictime.sdf. )

But then only one user must be active, I mean other users have to be logged out otherwise I think it might crash.

Our license is per user or per machine, whichever is smallest, so 2 licenses.

Any plans or progress in adding user accounts in MT server? I can't give my windows account password to my team and don't want to create additional users in my windows. I wish to be able to create accounts in MT server only for MT purposes without any privileges on my windows.