Is there a built-in method for computing an SHA-1 or MD5 hash in Windows 7?
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There is no built-in utility, however Microsoft provides a command-line utility as a free download: Availability and description of the File Checksum Integrity Verifier utility | ||||
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It's not exactly built-in, but at least you don't have to download any new software to make it work. You can create a powershell script to compute the MD5sum of files. The actual script can be found here: http://www.ahmadsoft.org/powershelljunkie/index.html Copy that text into a file called something like, "ps-md5sum.ps1" and save it somewhere. When you need to compute the hash of a file, open up PowerShell in the directory of the file you need to check, and then run it:
And it should return the hash of that file. | |||
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Again, nothing built in, so I use HashCalc.
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