How to Manage Notifications in Windows

Learn how to set up file creation notifications in Windows using built-in tools and PowerShell for real-time alerts.

An application can specify a set of conditions that trigger a change notification by using the FindFirstChangeNotification function. The conditions include changes to file names, directory names, attributes, file size, time of last write, and security.

應用程式可以使用 FindFirstChangeNotification 函式來指定觸發變更通知 的一組條件。 這些條件包括檔名、目錄名稱、屬性、檔案大小、上次寫入時間和安全性的變更。 此函式也會傳回可以使用等候 函式等候的 句柄。 如果滿足等候條件， FindNextChangeNotification 可用來提供通知句柄，以等候後續的變更。 不過，這些函式不會指出符合等候條件的實際變更。 使用 FindCloseChangeNotification 關閉通知句柄。 若要擷取通知中特定變更的相關信息，請

An application can specify a set of conditions that trigger a change notification by using the FindFirstChangeNotification function. The conditions include changes to file names, directory names, attributes, file size, time of last write, and security.

For simple notifications, you can use Directory Change Notifications. There's already a quite big and comprehensive example on the page and I will not write another example.

File system notification events can be obtained by the Win32 API function FindFirstChangeNotification (look more in detail in the MSDN). This function creates a change notification handle and sets up initial change notification filter conditions.