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:
  1. Login with administrative rights
  2. Create a folder outside the Guiffy install folder with a name like GuiffyShellExtension.
  3. Unzip the GuiffyWext.zip file in Guiffy's install folder to your GuiffyShellExtension folder.
  4. 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
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Here's how to do Guiffy file or folder compares from Windows Explorer: