hi Team, I have important files which is in my D drive. i can able to protect this drive to access otehr users in my domain. Instead of protecting this drive. I want to know who is accessing my D drive and also i have to get a notification if some one accessed my D drive. Please help me with this issue.

Which version of Windows 7 are you using ? I'm not sure about all versions, but Professional (and up obviously) support auditing. IMO that's the best way to achieve your goal. So in short: Select the properties of the folder you want to monitor.Go to the 'security' tab and select "advanced" at the bottom.Now you should have an "Audit" tab (its the 2nd tab, it could also be called access policies I guess).Here you can setup what you want to check, and for whom. So I could imagine setting up a read check ("Display folder / Read data") for the group "Everybody".You might also want to check writing options (create a folder or a file, etc.). Once you're done it will apply these settings to the folder and its child folders. And once all that's done you're covered. The actual access will be logged in the event logs. You can find these in the "sysadmin" folder to be found in the control panel (Control panel -> System & Security -> System administration"). You'll want the "securty" event log. note that this requires administrative privileges. Hope this helps!With kind regards, Peter

hi i am not able to see the system and security under control panel. i am using windows7. is there any other way to find the system and security?

i hope ihave to look in the eventviewer logs. but it would be helpful for me if i get an email alert ? is there any other way for this?

Hi, You may refer to the following article for more information: Monitor attempts to access and change settings on your computer But it seems it is hard to create a trigger to create an email alter.Alex Zhao TechNet Community Support