If you are looking for a really simple, free and portable ftp server for Windows, then visit StahlWorks.com and get their excellent Swiss File Knife. It’s a single, small executable with no dependencies that brings a ton of features. If you have it, just run …
sfk ftpserv -rw
… and enjoy your zero-install, ultra-portable ftp server!
Microsoft added a new command line tool to Vista and Windows 7: clip.exe. This nifty little utility allows user to copy program output to the clipboard on the windows command line. Its usage is pretty straightforward:
dir | clip – copies the output of the dir command to the clipboard
clip < example.txt – copy the contents of the file example.txt to the clipboard
Run this with SQLCMD to restore a SQL Server database:
RESTORE DATABASE MyDatabase
FROM DISK = 'd:\backup\MyDatabase.bak'
It’s that simple.
Thanks to Michael Otey @ SQL Server Magazine.
There are many md5 utilities for Windows, but very few that …
In short: if you need a very good tool, then use the Swiss File Knife (sfk).
For creating checksums for all your files in the current directory and storing the individual checksums in checksum.md5, execute this:
sfk md5gento checksum.md5 .
And for validating the checksums of all files in the current directory, execute this:
sfk md5check checksum.md5
That’s it 
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