Is there a built-in checksum utility on Windows 7?
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00:54 Answer 2 (Score 1375)
01:41 Answer 3 (Score 200)
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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/245775/i...
Accepted answer links:
[this other answer]: https://superuser.com/a/898377
[HashTab]: http://implbits.com/products/hashtab/
[image]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/QAApO.png
Answer 2 links:
[CertUtil]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows...
Answer 3 links:
[HashCheck]: http://code.kliu.org/hashcheck/
[latest version]: https://github.com/gurnec/HashCheck/rele...
Answer 4 links:
[Get-FileHash]: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...
[doskey]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3200...
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#windows7 #hashing #checksum
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ANSWER 1
Score 1374
CertUtil is a pre-installed Windows utility that can be used to generate hash checksums:
certUtil -hashfile pathToFileToCheck [HashAlgorithm]
HashAlgorithm choices: MD2 MD4 MD5 SHA1 SHA256 SHA384 SHA512
So for example, the following generates an MD5 checksum for the file
C:\TEMP\MyDataFile.img:
CertUtil -hashfile C:\TEMP\MyDataFile.img MD5
To get output similar to *Nix systems you can add some PowerShell magic:
$(CertUtil -hashfile C:\TEMP\MyDataFile.img MD5)[1] -replace " ",""
ACCEPTED ANSWER
Score 234
There is a built in utility, as specified in this other answer.
You may, however, wish to use this freeware app called HashTab that integrates neatly with Windows Explorer by registering a... well, a tab in the properties dialog of files. It's pretty sweet.
ANSWER 3
Score 201
I'm using HashCheck (latest version) which integrates itself as a property page for files and includes a context menu to compare against hash check files (SFV).
It is free, and the source is available.
ANSWER 4
Score 87
There is the FCIV utility from Microsoft, the Microsoft File Checksum Integrity Verifier (download link).
The Microsoft File Checksum Integrity Verifier tool is an unsupported command line utility that computes MD5 or SHA1 cryptographic hashes for files.
It doesn't show Windows 7 in system requirements but I've just used it in Windows 8 and it worked.