When investigating various incidents, an administrator needs to know who logged on to a particular Windows computer and when. You can get a history of user logons in a domain network from the domain controller logs. Nevertheless, sometimes it is easier to get information directly from the local computer’s event logs. In this article, we will show how to get and analyze the user logon events on a computer/server running Windows. These statistics will help you answer the questions “How to view who has used a Windows computer and when?” and “How to check user logon history in Windows?”.
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