Very late answer that might help someone-
Further to the comment by Peter Krnjevic, have a look at the FOSS tool "Everything".
This uses the NTFS USN journal to provide "instant search" by filename across a complete filesystem. Search results update in realtime as new files are written. With the appropriate indexing choices you can also run fast searches for files created/updated in any chosen timeframe.
The tool has a GUI, but there is also a command line tool and an API that talk to a background service.
For NTFS this is a comprehensive filesystem monitoring solution.
The worst thing about it is the app name, that no one is going to think to search for ..