What springs to mind are two things.

http://www.konesans.com/products/file-watcher-task

and

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms141209.aspx

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I was intrigued by this debate and felt compelled to register and add my own experience.

We generated similar codes (circa 100k) which have an expiry date (default from purchase date...