Windows Bulletin

Under Windows 10, we can run many applications from the command prompt with their aliases. The default alias for opening Notepad from the command prompt is notepad.exe. Simply enter it and press Enter to open the Notepad application.

The aliases of requests are generally similar in the name of the original request, but sometimes two different requests may have the same alias, which may lead to a conflict of interest. In such a situation, an attempt to open the intended application from the command prompt by entering its alias may open the others. For example, we have 2 applications called Spot Music, which could have the same name but were designed by two different brands and have a different size and structure. The default run name for both programs could be spotmusic.exe, since both are program files. When you try to open one of them, the other application opens. It’s boring and it limits our work. read more

Firefox is a popular web browser with many features and extensions. If you are an IT administrator and want to restrict the installation of Firefox extensions, Windows 10 provides a group policy setting that allows you to do so. Here is how to disable add-on installation in Firefox using the Group Policy Editor .

The Group Policy Editor is an essential component of the Windows operating system that allows you to do various things with ease. From enabling or disabling various appearance customization functions, you can do everything using the Group Policy Editor. By default, you cannot customize Firefox using the Group Policy Editor. However, if you are using Firefox v60+, you can manage various Firefox settings directly from the Group Policy Editor. You must first integrate Firefox into Windows group policy. read more

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

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