Usage frequency of windows application

Question

I have a homepage need to count the usage frequency of Notepad or Calc application. Is there any Windows API that I can know the usage frequency of windows application?

Answer 1

No. But you can write a service that will check applications in memory and do appropriate calculations. Few links:

• Windows Services Programming
• Simple Windows Service Sample

Also, shell variant from bua is quite ready solution. You just need some parsing and updating the counter (not necessary in the database).