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Disk Pulse Ultimate lives up to expectations in delivering a simple means to keeping preferred disk drives under surveillance for enhanced security. Setting up the process is easy enough, even if you can create pretty thorough rules. It's light on system resources and it's overall worth a try. DiskPulse is a free and easy-to-use disk change monitoring utility allowing one to monitor one or more disks or directories and detect file system changes in real-time. In addition, DiskPulse Pro adds the ability to save HTML, Excel CSV and text reports, provides an option to monitor specific file types and allows one to automatically send E-Mail notifications or execute custom commands. DiskPulse v1.6 enables file filters in the freeware product version and adds additional types of file filters allowing one to categorize and filter changed files by the file size and user name.

In addition, DiskPulse Ultimate allows one to export lists of changed files to an SQL database and adds a command line utility. Depending on your purpose, there are several customization options and rules to set before putting the process in motion. Multiple profiles can be created so you don have to go through the setup each time. Available adjustments include and are not limited to target volume selection, general events to monitor, custom rules, as well as exclusion lists. The main window is cleverly structured and is equipped with various info fields and quick access to main functions. All activity is displayed in a table with path, owner, size, operation, as well as date related info. Additionally you can sort it out according to various criteria.