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tommerfrancis
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Dec 05, 2025

Finding Windows applications/softwares to monitor changes to a directory on remote computers

Hello everyone, I would like to find some Windows applications/softwares to monitor changes to a directory on remote computers, which consist of:

  1. A client program that runs on the machines to be monitored.
  2. A server program that runs on the monitoring machine.

* Detailed description:

  1. Client program: connects to and exchanges information with the server.
  2. Server program:
  • Manages the list of clients. 
  • Selects which client to monitor and selects the directory on the client machine to monitor. All changes to this directory (deleting/adding subdirectories, deleting/adding/modifying the contents of files within the directory) must be reported to the user (on the server). 
  • Must be able to monitor multiple clients simultaneously (each client monitors only one directory). 
  • Graphical user interface. 

Thank you very much.

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    KellanWarner
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