Desktop Adviser (Desktop Spy) takes pictures of your computer screen : records all applications, visited web sites, chat conversations, E-mail activity, and anything else that is visible on the screen. This program could be useful for parents who want to know what their children are doing on the Internet or employers concerned about inappropriate use of company PCs.

Desktop Adviser is an invisible and easy-to-use PC activity monitoring tool that captures screenshots of the active application window or the entire desktop at the predefined time intervals varying from 1 second to several hours and saves the recorded images to a specified directory on the hard drive in image or video format. Desktop Adviser supports video compression in next formats:

# Cinepak Codec by Radius
# Intel Indeo® Video 4.5
# Intel IYUV codec
# Microsoft Video 1
# Microsoft Windows Media Video 9
# Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V1
# Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V2
# Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V3
# DivX® 5.2.1 Codec
# XviD MPEG-4 Codec
# 3ivx D4 4.5.1 Pro Video Codec
# VP60® Simple Profile
# VP61® Advanced Profile
# VP62® Heightened Sharpness Profile
# VP70® General Profile
# VP31? Compressor
# ffdshow Video Codec

This tiny and smart spy software can be used at home to control what the members of your family do on the PC when you are not watching. It is also a great employee monitoring and surveillance tool that can help you prevent the misuse of corporate resources and other, more serious, incidents.

Review for parents:
Desktop Adviser does not block or filter but does follow the child onto the Internet and takes screen shots at timed intervals set by the parents. It provides for easy review by the parent who is able to see exactly what activities the child experienced while in a chat room or any other area of the Internet.

Platform: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003

System Requirements: any