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I moved from using mint to windows 10. I have installed meld for windows. How do I get 'meld' to appear when right click after I have select two files in Windows explorer ?

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There is a workaround:

Open the ‘Send To’ shortcut folder by opening the Run window with WIN + R, and then enter shell:sendto

Within the folder that opens, simply add a shortcut to your Meld executable, e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Meld\Meld.exe.

You should now be able to select two files and send them to Meld under the ‘Send To’ submenu of right-click context menu.

https://justinschmitt.com/2019/08/20/meld-right-click-context-menu-merge-files.html

zagZzig
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Here is a SuperUser question about how to add an "Open with" context menu, which will let you open one file with Meld and might just work with two - can you please try it & let us know? If it doesn't, at least you have one opened and will have to manually open the other in Meld (drag & drop ought to make that easy).

See also How to Manually Edit the Right Click Menu in Windows and 10 Best Context Menu Editors for Windows 10.

What I don't know how to do, is what Beyond Compare does and have a "Select left file for compare" menu, which changes to "Compare with <previously selected file name>".

I note that if I select two files Beyond Compare changes the context menu to "Compare" and will load those two files if selected, so this might work with Meld too (if I select more than two files, BC will not add any entry to the context menu).

Mawg says reinstate Monica
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Here is the answer for the search of how to add to Context Menu. It still works for Windows 10: Reference link: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld/-/issues/278

Solution:

Step 1 Download singleinstance.exe from context-menu-handler

Step 2 Create a file with extension ".reg"

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT*\shell\DiffIt_Files] @="Diff it!" "Icon"="C:\Program Files (x86)\Meld\Meld.exe"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT*\shell\DiffIt_Files\command] @=""c:\Bin\singleinstance.exe" "%1" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Meld\Meld.exe" $files --si-timeout 400"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\DiffIt_Folders] @="Diff It!" "Icon"="C:\Program Files (x86)\Meld\Meld.exe"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\DiffIt_Folders\command]
@=""c:\Bin\singleinstance.exe" "%1" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Meld\Meld.exe" $files --si-timeout 400" The reg file create a context menu entry labelled "Diff It!" for all files (*) and for Folders (Folder). The lines containing the Icon can be removed if you don't want an icon.

Adapt the path of the program singleinstance.exe and the command run (here C:\Program Files (x86)\Meld\Meld.exe. Note the escaping of the backspaces and the quotes

Step 3 Run the .reg file. Double clicking on it might work if you are admin. Otherwise open an admin command prompt in your folder (in explorer: File>Open Command> Open Command as admin. or Alt-F-M-A). Simply Type the name of the .reg file to add it to the registry.

That's it.

To Uninstall:

(uninstall) You can either delete the keys manually in the registry or create a .reg file with the following content:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT*\shell\DiffIt_Files]

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\DiffIt_Folders]

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