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I have another question. Would there be any performance penalty associated with process tracking? I fired up Event Viewer on my laptop and saw 16,000 events in the Windows Security Log after seven hours of normal usage.
– nehalchoy
Commented Apr 25 at 12:27
Like most performance analysis it's subjective and situation-specific. Starting a new console host process isn't free, but it may not be noticeable underneath a certain frequency, especially as the CPU speed and core count increase. In the spirit of avoiding premature optimization, I would probably go with the scheduled task batch approach until it became a problem. Then I'd switch to a permanently resident background process that starts once and subscribes to Event Log, for example in a C# Windows service that uses System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventLogWatcher.
– Ben Hutchison
Commented Apr 25 at 22:49

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