My normal answer to this is that we need to enable auditing and set up object access audit policies.

With that sentence I usually lose the person on the word auditing.

First we will downloadShare Monitor from Softpedia.After downloading the system go ahead and run it.

Gboard’s editing mode on an Android phone.

If you do not have any Windows shared files on your box than nothing will happen.

If you do have shares on your rig, Share Monitor will start its magic.

I downloaded and ran Share Monitor on my office desktop machine.

Lenovo laptop showing file explorer in Windows 11

I then clicked thestartbutton on the system, not changing anything and I still saw nothing!

I then saw my log start to grow.

Now how can we use this information?

The file explorer on the Dell XPS 14 9440.

How do I know that?

Well that is the only entry withWrite + Readaccess to the file.

All the other entries list onlyreadaccess.

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This means that those users COULD NOT have modified my file.

My culprit is the Administrator!

Windows shared files

monitor Windows shared files

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