Tips and Tricks from the Windows Clipboard Manager

The Windows clipboard is central to many things, but runs silently in the background. In fact, copy and paste operations are performed using the Windows clipboard. In a sense, the native Windows clipboard works like the real clipboard, you can save the things you need to use it repeatedly or even once. Although third-party clipboard managers are a better choice for these tasks, not everyone needs the advanced tool, and the integrated Windows clipboard will do. In this section, we’ll guide you through some super cool Windows clipboard management tips. read more

How to check the MD5 checksum of files with Certutil

Have you just downloaded a large file? Or do you have a file you suspect? The best way to ensure that the file comes from a verified source is to measure its checksum. A checksum is almost like a fingerprint of a file that cannot be modified or deleted. If the checksum of two files is the same, we can safely say that the two files are the same. There are many algorithms to calculate the checksum and the one we are talking about here is MD5. In this article, we discussed a method for checking the integrity of files by calculating their checksum using the integrated command line tool Certutil. read more