File Menu

Select Folders to Compare

With this option you may select folders on "From" and "To" sides, to compare.

Start scan

This option will start the scan process using current settings.

1: From --> To

From - To > Compare "From" with "To" (Phase 1).

2: To --> From

To - From > Compare "To" with "From" (Phase 2). Please note than this mode don't search for duplicates. Phase 1 is needed for duplicates search.

Stop scan

Select this option to abort current process.

Save Results

With this option you're allowed to save Comparator Fast's results to:

• HTML format (like Web page)
• Text
• XML
• Excel (XLS)
• Word (DOC)
• CSV (delimited, delimiters options are inverted commas, comma, tab, colon and semicolon.

Reset browsers

The browsers are the windows used to browse and select folders for comparison.

If Comparator Fast was used before start, it'll try to load the last used settings automatically.

When you need to change to another new directory, you may choose any preset already defined, or use this option to reset the browsers to default, so you can browse and select new directories:

Both directories are setting to default.

Reset log and results

This is an easy way to reset all current results and the Log, all with just one command. It's different from Reset button because the Main Menu option reset the Log too.

Faster process

Using this option will set some parameters of Comparator Fast to get a most fastest process.

Recent Used Folders

This option shows you a window with the last recent used folders (compared):

• From folder
• To folder
• Date/Time of last use

This history is available here and doing right-click on Comparator Fast's system tray icon, where you'll see two submenus: Recent Used Folders on From, and Recent Used Folders on To.

Favorites Folders

Here you can define a set of up to 120 folders you use frequently ! This will help you to open your favorite folder quickly, in Explorer or Command Prompt window.

Commands

You may click on proper toolbar or right-click your selection for a popup menu.

New
To create a new favorite folder. You should select the folder you want to set as favorite, and then specify the name you want to identify this favorite (if you wish, or left it blank to assign the full path of favorite folder as "name"). You may also drag and drop a file/folder from Explorer.

If you want to insert a "line" to separate your favorites folders on the system tray popup, just set any folder as "favorite" and type - as name (the minus character).

If you want to separate your menus into a new popup, set a "menu break" on your Favorite folder's name. One of two reserved characters inserted as the first character on the name, will cause a "menu break" to another popup. Those characters are / and +. You may use the popup on selected favorites to toggle menu breaks on or off.

Paste
If you copied a list of folders names to clipboard, you may paste that list with this option.

Edit
To edit selected favorite folder. If you just want to change the favorite's name, click on it or select the favorite and hit the F2 key.

Delete
Removes selected favorites from list.

Up / Down
Allow to define any order you want to display your favorites folders.
You may also drag and drop selected favorites to another position.

Grids
Click to turn on/off the grid lines on the list.

Explorer
To open the selected favorites folders in Explorer.

MS-DOS
To open selected favorites folders in a Command Prompt window.

Clipboard
Copy selected favorites to clipboard based on your final choice. Using a favorite folder as example: C:\Program Files\Interdesigner Software

With Full Path: copy to clipboard the full path of selected favorite(s).
Result = C:\Program Files\Interdesigner Software

Just Folders Names: copy to clipboard just the last folder name of selected favorite(s).
Result = Interdesigner Software

Just Folders Paths: copy to clipboard just the path of folders names of selected favorite(s).
Result = C:\Program Files\

Names (assigned by User): copy to clipboard just the names you set for each selected favorite(s)
Result = My Folder

Close
Exit this window.

Popup Options

Select All
Select all existing favorites.

Select None
Unselect all favorites.

Toggle Menu Break
Insert/Removes "menu break" character to selected favorite(s).

Toggle Menu Bar Break
Insert/Removes "menu bar break" on selected favorite(s). The "menu break" draws another popup box separated by spaces. The "menu bar break", inserts a vertical line to "separate" both popups.

Make sure not to include too many "breaks" or your favorites will not be shown if your screen doesn't have enough resolution.

Clipboard functions
To access the detailed clipboard options.

Delete selected
To delete selected favorite(s).

Printer Setup

Allow to define your printing preferences and destination printer.

Exit

Select this option to exit Comparator Fast.