Windows question

[bornfree]

Is there a way for me to known when someone in my Windows file systems creates or modifies any of my files?

[mtx500]

If you want to monitor file system accesses from a specific user or group of users, this can be achieved quite easy. At least if you have administrative rights on the computer and I think you need at least Windows Professional.

Note: I have german UI, so my translation of the UI texts to english might deviate a little bit.

Go to the directory (or the drive), right-click to open the context menu, choose Properties entry. Select Security tab, click on the Extended button on the lower right. Select Monitoring tab (the second one from the left). Click Continue button to get administrative rights.

Click Add... button. Now you can add monitoring for this directory or drive, for a specific user or a user group. Accesses will then be logged as events in the appropriate list and can be viewed with the event viewer (Start > Control panel > System and Security > Administrative Tools > Event Viewer).

If you want to monitor accesses from anyone except you, that is something I do not know how to do. First, I do not know how you express a logical negation, or an exception for yourself. Second, there are several pseudo-users which do system tasks, and if you enable monitoring for these, you would be overwhelmed with events.