Log of all applications that run or running manually on PC with start/end time

I'm wondering if there's any log which stores information about a particular program such as when the program has started and closed manually on Windows such as MS Word, or Chrome. Any ideas?

Solution 1:

Mark Russinovich and Thomas Garnier released a tool called SysMon which allows logging of started processes:

Sysmon includes the following capabilities:

• Logs process creation with full command line for both current and parent processes.

Analyze the log details in Eventviewer:

//Edit

Since End of May 2017, we see a lot of questions about a small command windows popping up. This is caused by OfficeBackgroundTaskHandlerRegistration scheduled task.

Disable this task in task scheduler under ask Scheduler -> Microsoft -> Office ->