WINMERGE WinMerge is Open Source file compare and merge utility which runs on all modern Windows versions. Some features require additional installs or components. Latest WinMerge version and other WinMerge information is available at http://winmerge.org Quick start to WinMerge: Read online-manual Quick-start chapter to get started with WinMerge: http://winmerge.org/docs/manual/QuickStart.html HTML Manual: Manual is available online at http://winmerge.org/docs/manual/ it is also possibly installed (if choosed so) locally and downloadable separately from http://winmerge.org/ (see documentation) Archive Support: WinMerge uses 7-Zip for archive file support. 7-Zip (http://www.7-zip.org) is Open Source archive tool. To install archive file support, download 7-Zip plugin installer from http://winmerge.org/. Installing archive support: It is recommended to Install 7-Zip application. If this cannot be done for some reason, 7-zip plugin installer can install only needed files to enable archive file support. Note that it DOES NOT allow stand-alone use of 7-Zip, only archive support for WinMerge. Scripts Support: If you would like to work with scripts youll need to have the Windows Scripting Host installed. If you receive any errors relating to your scripts please visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/downloads/list/webdev.asp to make sure that your Scripting Host is both up to date and not corrupted. Support: Developers are answering questions in Sourceforge.net's WinMerge forums: http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=13216 Bugs and feature requests: Bugs and suggestions for new features should be submitted into bug and RFE trackers at sourceforge.net. Bug tracker: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=13216&atid=113216 When reporting a bug, please tell us WinMerge version number! WinMerge versions 2.2.0 and later can output 'Configuration Log' from menu Help/Configuration. Please attach this info (as file attachment) to bug report, it has a lots of useful information for developers. RFE (feature request) tracker: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=13216&atid=363216 - The WinMerge Developers