Monitor and keep track of file changes and activity on your Windows computer

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If you are dealing or working with sensitive data and worried about the last or recent changes made on your files, or if you have noticed some sort of data loss or leakages, then in such sensitive situations, you might want to consider installing a file monitoring software on your Windows 7 computer to detect any changes which may be made to your files. File Activity Manager and File Monitoring are two such freeware that can help you do it.

File Activity Manager

File Activity Manager1 Monitor and keep track of file changes and activity on your Windows computer

File Activity Manager is a free application and notifies you with any type of file additions, deletions and changes on your computer. It is completely portable and requires no installation. Just download the executable file and run the application, that’s it, you are all set to use it.

Now some points to be remembered, File Activity Monitor can only track file changes on C drive of your PC. This application is hard coded and there is no option to monitor file changes on other drives. The reason I’d like to use this is, it is clean the user interface is simple than other applications available. It displays things at high level and only that matters.

In short, it logs real-time changes on the files stored on the Local Disk (C:\) drive only.

You can download File Activity Manager by clicking here :

File Monitoring software

File monitoring Monitor and keep track of file changes and activity on your Windows computer

If you are looking for something that monitors all drives on your computer then File Monitoring is the better option. This application is also a portable one and runs just by clicking the executable file. The advantage here is that this application has the option of monitoring all the drives. The application runs on single windows and requires hardly any navigation.

On the top section of the window, you have the options for selecting the drives (C, D, E, F) and adjacent to that, you have the section on the monitoring method, viz. when a file is created, modified, renamed or deleted. And finally there is a button to Start and Stop the monitoring activity.

You can download File Monitoring by clicking here.

Which file monitoring applications would you recommend others ? Please share in the comments section below.

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Azharuddin Khan, being a technology enthusiastic, loves writing blogs and updating them. Currently pursuing his Bachelors in Information Technology, he also loves in extending support via providing hardware solutions.

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  • Jhampshire

    To what extent have you checked the suppliers of these utilities, and their products? To operate properly, any utility which offers the functionality that you describe must have significant access rights.
    Who are the people providing the utilities? What is their purpose in offering such useful software free? I’m concerned that there may be some payback gained from the access rights, as has happened with plenty of “free” smartphone apps.

  • Khan Azharuddin12345

    Hi Jhampshire,
    I understand you are concerned about the functionality of these freewares. Well these are fairly small applications and developed for single purpose, that is to monitor file changes, I personally feel there is no need to know about the developers and the reason behind the free distribution of these small applications. Why would someone pay for these small application ?.

    And as far as the functionality goes, I have been using them for couple of months and I found that, they are working absolutely fine..
    Yes, one should check the suppliers of utilities, if the applications are complex and you depend on them for your business needs. Some thing like Database, Antivirus, Office suites and so on..
    I hope I cleared that.. :)

  • Nomail

    It’s a nice and iteresting tool. It really helps to find what files and why are changed, renames or deleted. But the creator forgot 2 important things: a way to save the logs, and a name for the creator!