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Using DupScout Windows Shell Extension

DupScout provides a Windows shell extension allowing one to search duplicate files directly from the Windows Explorer application. In order to search duplicates in one or more disks or directories, select the required disks or directories in the Windows Explorer application, press the right mouse button and select the 'DupScout - Find Duplicates' menu.

In most cases, the Windows shell extension is a very useful feature, but sometimes, when the user have too many installed shell extensions, the Windows context menu may become too cluttered. In order to remove the DupScout entry from the Windows context menu, open the options dialog, select the 'General' tab and disable the Windows shell extension.

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10-Feb-2026

DupScout v17.8 improves the side-bar disk space monitoring and disk performance monitoring tool views, improves the duplicate files search results dialog, improves all types of HTML duplicate file search reports. In addition, the new product version improves the main DupScout GUI application, improves the DupScout Server product version and fixes a number of bugs.

21-Jan-2026

DupScout v17.7 adds pie charts to the consolidated PDF duplicate files search reports and adds the ability to set custom true-type fonts for all types of PDF reports allowing one to better support international character sets. In addition, the new version improves the main DupScout GUI application, improves the options dialog and fixes a number of bugs.

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