RapidCRC Replacement: Powershell

For ages I was using RapidCRC to create checksums.

Originally, CRC checksums, but already for a few years MD5 checksums.

But alas, as virtual machines took over much of the daily work and they hardly are all well set up for an extended toolset, I step back to what is available on any Windows machine, be it Windows 11 or Windows Server.

Get-FileHash "file" -Algorithm MD5

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