Global - General Options
Dialog Box Options
These options apply to all sessions.
Windows Explorer integration
- Enable Windows Explorer (Shell) integration
This option adds ExamDiff Pro menu items to file and directory
context (right-click) menus in Windows Explorer. If one file or directory is selected,
ExamDiff Pro context menu items will allow you to chose the selected file/directory as the first item
for further comparison, to compare it with the previously selected file/directory, or to
open ExamDiff Pro and browse for the second file/directory to compare. If two
files/directories are selected, you will be able to compare them by using the ExamDiff Pro
context menu item with one click.
In 32-bit systems, ExamDiff Pro installs a 32-bit Shell extension. In 64-bit systems, ExamDiff Pro
installs both 32-bit and 64-bit Shell extensions.
Under Windows Vista or higher, if you not running as administrator, you will be presented with
the standard User Access Control message asking you to confirm this change. In 64-bit systems this message will be
presented twice, once for each Shell extension.
- Allow comparing files to directories (by appending file names to directory names)
Select this option if you want to be able to compare files to directories (ExamDiff Pro
will silently append the file name to the directory name, and then compare the two files).
- Command line options
Command line options used for starting ExamDiff
Pro from the Shell extension.
Recent file/directory lists
- Only show second items that have already been compared to the first item
This option causes only items that have been previously compared to
the first item to be shown in the bottom drop-down box in the Compare dialog.
- Enable Autopick
This option enables the Autopick feature: the ability
to remember file and directory pairs after they are compared, and to
automatically select the second item based on the first one in the Compare dialog.
This feature also keeps track of the last time that every pair of files or directories
is compared, and displays it in the status bar of the Compare dialog.
- Maximum number of stored Autopick pairs
Maximum number of file/directory pairs stored by ExamDiff Pro.
Sessions
- Number of recent sessions
Sets the number of recent sessions
displayed in Files/Directories | Sessions menu.
- Number of recent session files
- Retain file/directory pair when changing session
This option causes the current file/directory pair to be retained when
you change sessions in the Compare dialog.
When this option is disabled, as it is by default, the file/directory pair changes to the most recent
pair of the session that you select.
Updates
- Check for new version on startup
This option causes ExamDiff Pro to check whether a new build is available each time the program starts. Use the Check Now button to check for updates right from this Options page.
- Include beta versions
Use this option to include beta versions in update checks.
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