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#COMPARE FOLDERS WINDOWS 8#
Open the start menu in Windows 7 and 10 or open the search function in Windows 8 and search for CMD. Now you will need to open up an elevated command prompt window. For the purposes of this tutorial, we will put all the text documents on the desktop. Once you have downloaded these three documents, you can copy them into any folder on your computer. These documents each contain a paragraph of text with a few similar word groupings.
#COMPARE FOLDERS HOW TO#
Like every tool in command prompt, you will need to know how to enter your commands with the proper syntax. This is the Pathname parameter in which you will state the location of your files. There is only one parameter you will need to specify, but you will need to enter two instances of it.