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I know this sounds kind of ridiculous, but someone stole my mouse from my cubicle.. I came to work in the morning and was about to give my mouse a little shove to wake up the monitor, but it wasn't there!

I'm trying to figure out when this happened. I'm running Windows 7 and it's a USB mouse. I checked the event logs, but there doesn't seem to be any logs that might tell me what I'm looking for.

Is there any place where USB unplug events are logged?

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My event log is called a security camera. – Bart Silverstrim Mar 29 '11 at 14:34
Do you turn off, or standby, your computer at night? – jscott Mar 29 '11 at 14:37
@jscott - Nope, always on so that I can remote in if needed – pepsi Mar 29 '11 at 15:03
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I generally find missing mice in the dryer. – GregD Mar 29 '11 at 15:12
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Set a trap, buy a hidden camera and a nicer mouse to temp the thief again. – Moab Mar 29 '11 at 20:46
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There isn't a log of them unfortunately - those events are lost forever. I've always wanted a dmesg equivalent on Windows.

With Windows XP and earlier, you can use winmsd to produce a system configuration output, but in later versions it's been replaced with msinfo32 (GUI application that I'm not so sure about parsing the output of).

Both of those only give you point-in-time information though, so for mouse-theft detective work you'd need to be regularly logging the output of winmsd to a file. I must admit I'd personally go with the webcam suggestion in the future.

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