A keylogger is best used to serve the purpose of allowing you to acquire the ability to be able to monitor the entire activity which is occurring on your PC. If you wish to implement a sophisticated, hidden piece of software onto your computer which will remain undetected, running in stealth mode, independently of all other programs which are running, then a keylogger is best at fulfilling this purpose.
This type of software can therefore be used to monitor which websites have been visited, all social networking chat conversations can be logged, email activity can be tracked and even passwords can be exposed. All of this can be recorded in a log, which includes screen-captures of what has been occurring on your PC, and this can be sent to you via email so that you can review the evidence at any time. This means that one of the keyloggers best features is the fact that it does not require you as a user, to have regular access to the computer which you have chosen to monitor. Once installed, you need not even revisit the computer in question as the keylogger can continue to work undetected for many years.
Some of the uses a keylogger can best be put to include monitoring the activity of your child whilst they are browsing online so that you can therefore have a greater control over their safety regarding online predators. Your child will be totally unaware of the presence of the software as it will not show up as a desktop icon, nor appear in any lists of processes which are running on your PC. Similarly, if you suspect that your partner or employee may be using the internet for purposes which they are being dishonest about, you will be able to gather the evidence which will fully expose the truth about what exactly they are viewing, what information they are sharing with others, and just whom exactly they are interacting with.
Never again will people be able to deceive you regarding the purposes for which they are using your computer. There will no longer be any secret activity occurring, because even when you are absent from your computer, you will still be able to monitor what is happening on it. In fact, you can have an even greater awareness of your PC activity than if you simply attempt to use the browsing history to discover this. With keylogging software, even if the user has attempted to conceal their actions, they will still be clear for you to see, as the refined nature of the software means that everything which has been viewed will already have been captured.