Originally Posted by Angahran

Personally, I use winmerge for comparisons.
It does the job, and it's free.

I compare 'default' and my own UI and then work through all the differences to see what is required, what is special to my UI, etc.

I try to keep the layout of any files I modify as close to the default as possible to make comparisons easier.

Also, if you are really organised, you can make a copy of default before patch days so you can compare it to the updated version once you have patched.

Ang.