One installer, nothing else to set up. No account, no runtime to install, no bundled extras. Everything Driven needs is inside the file you are about to download.
Windows will show a warning when you run it. That is expected, and the next section explains exactly why.
When you run the installer, Windows shows a blue screen reading “Windows protected your PC” and describes the publisher as unknown.
That message is not a virus alert. Windows is not telling you it found something harmful. It is telling you that this program has not been signed with a paid code-signing certificate, so no certificate authority has formally vouched for who published it.
Driven is built by one independent developer. A code-signing certificate costs several hundred euros every year, and reputation with SmartScreen is earned slowly, over thousands of installs. Until Driven has the backing to cover that, Windows treats it the same way it treats nearly every small independent app on its first release.
Signing is one of the first things sponsorship will pay for. Read about supporting Driven ›
Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognized app from starting. Running this app might put your PC at risk.
App: Driven-Clipboard-Setup.exe
Publisher: Unknown publisher
Driven contains no malware, no adware, no bundled software and no tracking. Rather than ask you to trust that sentence, here are three independent ways to check it for yourself, none of which rely on me.
Every build has a unique SHA-256 hash. If the file you downloaded produces this exact value, it is byte for byte the file I published and nothing altered it in transit.
In PowerShell, from your Downloads folder:
VirusTotal runs a file against roughly seventy antivirus engines at once, Microsoft Defender among them. You can look up this exact build by its fingerprint, or upload your own copy and watch the scan happen.
Unsigned installers sometimes draw a heuristic flag or two from smaller engines. That reflects the missing signature, not the contents.
The code that becomes this installer is public. If you write software, you can read exactly what Driven does with what you copy, and confirm there is nothing in it that talks to a server.
The thing you are trusting a clipboard manager with is everything you copy. So it is worth being precise about where that ends up.
If anything above left you unsure, ask before you install. A question about what this software does is a fair thing to want answered.
Version 1.0.0 • Free beta • Windows 10/11 64-bit