Based on our record, WinMerge should be more popular than Default Programs Editor. It has been mentiond 28 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Not sure if it works in 11’s more options menu .. Though I’m assuming it’s the legacy one, but if you need to edit again, forget the registry and try this! Source: over 2 years ago
What I thought I needed to do was open the windows setting and go to "choose default app by file type" and change the Default app to open it but when I click "choose a default" I don't get an option to browse for an executable or get a list to choose from rather it just pops up saying there is no installed app for this file type and shows a button that says "look for an app in the store" which just searches the... Source: almost 3 years ago
You could remove all sorts of entries for all types of files using 3rd party tools like Default Programs Editor. Its functionality used to be built into Windows Explorer. Source: about 3 years ago
I use WinMerge[1] a lot, and it's always impressed me how it immediately opens to a useable state. So it's absolutely still possible to write Windows software that can open instantly. I think the biggest issue, which multiple other comments have identified, is that people just don't care. Apps open fast enough these days, and no one is pushing back on developers to improve their app's startup performance. [1]:... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago
I’ve used winmerge before and had good results comparing drives. Source: over 1 year ago
However, if you're looking to compare files that already exist, you can use something like WinMerge. Source: over 1 year ago
I use Robocopy to preserve the original timestamps (using the /COPY:DAT and /DCOPY:DAT arguments) and WinMerge for doing a subsequent binary compare of the source/destination (sorting the results column by which files are different). Source: over 1 year ago
I haven't used this one but for example https://winmerge.org. Source: over 1 year ago
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