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nontroppo:
Compare It! if you want to spend money (clearly best paid app IMO).

Winmerge if you want to do it for free.

Though I doubt most people care any more about INI files, I wrote an online INI diff tool ages ago (the issue being INI sections can move around without lines changing which most Diff tools fail to handle well):

http://nontroppo.org/ini/

Armando:
Beyond compare

nite_monkey:
it's a more complicated way, but you can get an editor that numbers the lines, and just open the two text files at once, and goto the two lines and compare them.

Ralf Maximus:
Even better, you could open the first file and select the first line of text. Go to the 2nd file and search for that text; make a note of where it appears (or not) in the document. Repeat for each line of the first file, then swap files and start over.

f0dder:
Even better, you could open the first file and select the first line of text. Go to the 2nd file and search for that text; make a note of where it appears (or not) in the document. Repeat for each line of the first file, then swap files and start over.
-Ralf Maximus (November 10, 2007, 12:15 AM)
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...or you could use one of the compare apps, which are 1000x easier and better and faster :)

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