FoldMonkey

FoldMonkey is capable of monitoring a folder of your choice and it can perform a series of actions when you store new items in that folder. It can rename files, archive them, create folders and more. If your daily routing involves storing and processing files, this lightweight utility can make your work significantly easier.

The application is absolutely free and it works on all modern Windows platforms. Its setup file is quite small, so you can download it and install its components on your computer in under a minute. Furthermore, the hardware requirements are modest and you don't have to install any prerequisite tools.

Regardless of how you want to handle your files, making the necessary preparations is quite easy. All you have to do is click a series of check boxes and make a few selections in drop menus, on the application's compact user interface. Besides choosing which folder to monitor, you can also set the application to monitor all files or only new or modified ones. The software can also be restricted to a certain file pattern.

Besides telling it what to look out for, you can also tell the program how it should act when you store new files in the monitored folder. You can set it to rename the files according to a pattern, copy or move them into a new folder, which can be named after the current date or according to many other criteria. It is also possible to launch another program, with or without parameters, when you store files in the monitored folder, which gives you many more possibilities.

If you have to process files everyday like a mill, FoldMonkey can make your life much easier, thanks to its simple, but efficient functionality.