It displays an activity list in its interface upon startup that lists the programs and their activity. The activity is usually hard disk or processor activity or both. System processes are by default hidden in the list of running programs. They can be displayed by clicking on the Also show system processes link at the top.

Selecting one of the programs in the list displays additional information about it in the lower half of the program window.

The information displayed include the name and installation directory on the hard drive, the data and tie the program was started, installed and modified, product details that include the producer’s name and copyright, security information, known problems and external links both to the producer’s website (if available) and a Google search.

The right side of the program window contains action buttons that can display the program properties, open the installation folder, terminate, close or uninstaller the program as well as send it to Kaspersky or VirusTotal to check it for malicious contents.

What’s my computer doing can be a helpful tool for analysing programs that seem to cause lots of disk or cpu activity on a computer system. Advanced users can do the same with the standard Windows Task Manager or process explorers.

What is my computer doing can be downloaded right here. (via Megaleecher)

While many users do not worry about those information some prefer to manage which information get recorded and which do not.

Win Spy is a free software program that can monitor computer activity, or to be more precise to display what has been recorded by the Windows operating system in the past. It displays general operating system items like the recent documents but also Internet Explorer specific records extracted from the index.dat file.

Each of the eight different histories can be accessed by clicking on the tabs on top of the application. Files can be executed by double-clicking them. While the application is great to monitor computer activity it does not come with the means to erase the information.

A simple web search usually provides the tools to delete those information from the computer system.