File monitor program ?

[kendao]

Hi all, I wanna write a program that can monitor and discover any change of file in windows sytem and notify the change to user. where should i begin and what should i read ? Thanks, ken

[khan]

I think ReadDirectoryChangesW(...) should do. It can watch a directory for changes. There are a few resources (articles) here on CP that implement this function. this is this.

[ThatsAlok]

Try this article http://www.codeproject.com/file/directorychangewatcher.asp

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