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FolderChangesView v2.35
Andrew Lee on 31 Mar 2023 Change history
- 139KB (uncompressed)
- Released on 29 Mar 2023
- Suggested by lautrepay
FolderChangesView monitors the folder, disk drive, or even remote network share to see every file that is being modified, created, or deleted. Requires read permissions to the selected drive/folder.
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| Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
| Writes settings to: | Application folder |
| Stealth: ? | Yes |
| Unicode support: | Yes |
| License: | Freeware |
| How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch FolderChangesView.exe. |
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Specular
on 2019-08-27 09:52
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Particularly useful since it keeps a log in the main window of files that get deleted immediately following creation, which allows one to see more of what is occurring than merely looking at files that have remained searchable on the disk. |
Moo0 File Monitor v1.11
lwc on 25 Mar 2023 Change history
- 2MB (uncompressed)
- Released on 18 Aug 2013
- Suggested by Ennovy
Moo0 File Monitor monitors a host computer activity including processor history, disk activity, and a customizable view of file activities (create, write, rename, delete) on one or more drives. File activity is displayed live to demonstrate what applications are modifying the drive. The program can be used to track down programs that are slowing system performance by reading/writing too much from the hard drive or for config files and other changes.
HTML log file export available.
Note: Program exits by right-clicking system tray icon (thanks Jimmy).
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| Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
| Writes settings to: | Application folder: \savedata\SaveData.xml |
| Dependencies: | Administrator rights |
| Stealth: ? | Yes |
| Unicode support: | Yes |
| License: | Free for personal use |
| How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch FileMonitor.exe. |
| Similar/alternative apps: | Process Monitor |
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LifeH2O
on 2010-10-03 20:39
Very good software, a bit easier then file monitor by sysinternals. Easy to understand
smaragdus
on 2016-06-23 23:34
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I think that the instructions are outdated: |
FilePro Build 350 Adware
Andrew Lee on 18 Feb 2023 Change history
- 2MB (uncompressed)
- Released on 14 Feb 2023
- Suggested by I am Baas
FilePro is a powerful disk and file management utility. The program can generate disk treemaps for local or network volumes, search and locate files in treemaps by automatic zoom-in and positioning, and includes a directory analysis tools to compare files and/or directories and find duplicates. The program can save entire or partial volume snapshots, compares snapshots against current or past disk states, and examine changes by difference in size or percentage difference.
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| Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
| Writes settings to: | Application folder |
| Stealth: ? | Yes |
| License: | Free for personal use |
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| Similar/alternative apps: | SpaceSniffer |
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I am Baas
on 2016-02-16 18:00
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Watch 4 Folder v2.5.1
lwc on 25 Mar 2023 Change history
- 2MB (uncompressed)
- Released on 5 Jul 2013
- Suggested by joby_toss
Watch 4 Folder is a simple, lightweight tool for monitoring folder and file activities. The program can monitor 12 different types of events, execute a program or batch file, or show a pop-up message in case of an event. The program can also write to a text log file and allow the user to watch it's changes live.
The free version is limited to monitoring a single folder.
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| Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 |
| Writes settings to: | %TEMP%\W4F25 |
| Stealth: ? | No. Settings in \AppData\Local\Temp\W4F25 |
| Unicode support: | No |
| Path portability: | Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc) |
| License: | Freeware |
| How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch W4F25.exe. |
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Midas
on 2013-09-06 13:18
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FYI, Watch 4 Folder freeware version now limited to monitoring just one folder -- for accuracy, it should be renamed to Watch 1 Folder... |
SilentNight Inspector v1.01
lwc on 25 Mar 2023 Change history
- 718KB (uncompressed)
- Released on 18 Jan 2009
- Suggested by Jim Herbert
SilentNight Inspector is a file/folder monitoring program that detects and reports the file/folder creation/deletion and changes to attributes, access date, filesize, last write, security etc.
NOTE: site offline, it's available as an archive while the download link points to an external file share host.
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| Runs on: | Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP |
| Writes settings to: | Windows registry. But given the nature of the application, I think it can be accepted as portable. |
| License: | Freeware |
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Bombenhagel
on 2010-07-02 05:15
I still use this program all the time. It crashes hard if you have "Auto-save the log after 1000 lines" enabled. I just went looking for an update. There are none. It seems to be a one off because I couldn't find anything recent from Kristen Tande, who made this and Microburner. Some developer profiles here and there; that's it. Site is long gone. Unique and useful and quite portable. Stores settings in [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SILENTNIGHT] or copy/paste.
Midas
on 2014-11-26 14:40
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Dev has a (sloppy coded) site at www.easy-data.no, but no mention of Inspector. |
Directory Monitor v2.15.0.6
lwc on 25 Mar 2023 Change history
- 39MB (uncompressed)
- Released on 27 Jan 2023
- Suggested by I am Baas
Directory Monitor enables real-time monitoring for new files/folders or changes. The program can monitor unlimited directories and network shares, as well as filter results and execute a program/script at a given event. The program can log all changes and allows notifications via balloon messages or taskbar animation.
Supports relative folder locations. A pro version (see comparison) is available with additional features.
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| Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
| Writes settings to: | Application folder |
| Dependencies: | Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 |
| Stealth: ? | No |
| Unicode support: | Yes |
| Path portability: | Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc) |
| License: | Liteware |
| How to extract: | Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch DirectoryMonitor.exe. |
| Similar/alternative apps: | FolderChangesView |
| What's new? | https://directorymonitor.com/download/ChangeLog.txt |
