How To use Guiffy from Windows Explorer
From Windows Explorer you can select two files or two folders, and run Guiffy to
do a Compare.
Here's how to setup Guiffy in Explorer's context menu:
- Login with administrative rights
- Create a folder outside the Guiffy install folder with a name like
GuiffyShellExtension.
- Unzip the GuiffyWext.zip file in Guiffy's install folder to your
GuiffyShellExtension folder.
- Open a DOS command window,
(Note: On a Windows Vista machine, type cmd.exe in the search box,
hold Ctrl and Shift key and press enter. You should see
"administrator" in the title of the command window to indicate you
have elevated privilege),
CD to your GuiffyShellExtension folder.
Enter the following command to register Guiffy's context menu:
regsvr32 GuiffyWext.dll
NOTES:
- You only need to install the Explorer context menu once. The Guiffy
context menu shell extension automatically detects and
uses the latest release of Guiffy installed.
- To uninstall the Guiffy shell extenstion --- unregister
the context menu. Open a DOS command window, CD to your
GuiffyShellExtension
folder. Enter the following command to
unregister Guiffy's context menu:
regsvr32 /u GuiffyWext.dll
Then, if you wish, delete the GuiffyShellExtension folder.
Here's how to do Guiffy file or folder compares from Windows Explorer:
- Click on one file/folder to select it.
- Ctrl-Click on the other file/folder to select it.
- Then, Right-Click and click on Guiffy Compare.
- --OR--
- Click on the first file/folder, right-click and click on "Select Guiffy 1st to Compare"
- Click on the second file/folder, right-click and click on "Compare to [first path selected]"