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TheFolderSpy

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The ultimate, yet free, hard disk monitoring utility.

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  • FreeProprietary

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  • Windows
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    TBayAreaPat added TheFolderSpy as alternative to Tiny Watcher
    23 days ago
  • TBayAreaPat reviewed TheFolderSpy  
    25 days ago

    This is interesting for a try and informative. If you set it to C: , it will quickly lock up, but after you stop it and go to the log, you can see all the gremlins in your device. I found that one app was doing more activity than I liked.. so I updated it and shut off the autostart option. You will see in appdata/temp that windows is constantly changing things. So from there, I edit the drive folders watched and unclick the change option. Interesting for a try, though I would hope for...

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  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 2.5
  • Alternatives

    5 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about TheFolderSpy, and it has gotten 0 likes

TheFolderSpy was added to AlternativeTo by Shoji on Apr 2, 2017 and this page was last updated Apr 2, 2017.

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TBayAreaPat
  
Top positive commentOct 19, 2024

This is interesting for a try and informative. If you set it to C: , it will quickly lock up, but after you stop it and go to the log, you can see all the gremlins in your device. I found that one app was doing more activity than I liked.. so I updated it and shut off the autostart option. You will see in appdata/temp that windows is constantly changing things. So from there, I edit the drive folders watched and unclick the change option. Interesting for a try, though I would hope for something a bit more manageable for general use.

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Shoji
  
Top negative commentJan 30, 2018

Explorer.exe to keep restarting until apps are closed

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What is TheFolderSpy?

Ever found yourself in a position to know about a change in your hard disk? Ever wanted to find (with proof) if your mischievous younger brother deleted your file? Ever caught yourself wanting to spy on your friend's computer?

TheFolderSpy lets you do all these things easily.

-ITS FREE. -Small size (60 KB download). -Simple to use. -Portable (No installation, carry in your thumb drive). -Monitor any number of folders in real-time. -Execute a file when a change is detected(plays wav files, executes other files). -Fully automated (Run and forget). -Monitor many types of changes: Creation,Deletion, Attributes changes, Access date, Filesize changes etc. -Auto start (optional). -Can write logs. -Monitor specific files in a folder. -INCOGNITO MODE. -Send EMAIL when a change is detected. [custom SMTP also available!] -And many many more...