Running the UserAssist framework
Our script is capable of parsing both Windows XP- and Windows 7-based UserAssist keys. However, let's focus our attention on the differences between the CSV and XLSX output options. Using the xlsxwriter module and seeing the output should make the advantages of writing directly to an Excel file over CSV clear. While you do lose the portability of the CSV document, you gain a lot more functionality. The following is a screenshot of running the userassist.py script against a Vista NTUSER.DAT and creating an XLSX output:
The CSV output is not capable of preserving Python objects or crafting report-ready spreadsheets. ...
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