This information, I hope this post turns up in search results and offers some help.Ī checksum is used to ensure that a file copied from location A to location B copied accurately. For users who, like me, had a hard time discovering For instance, I could not reply to any of the existing questions but am limited to discussing the topic in this "community" section. Microsoft also makes it difficult for users to post anything in its forums.
Because Windows 10 apparently has simple commands to check the values as explained above, I don't see any reason to use them.
Microsoft just makes it difficultįor anyone to discover them, at least in the experience of some of us.įree third-party checksum programs are available for download and installation. Presumably, Microsoft does not expect it to be used, probably because there are alternatives. In any event, in Windows 10 as it is configured, neither the command prompt nor Windows PowerShell recognizes FCIV as a command. For Windows 10, at least one user sets forth somewhat elaborate steps for installation and use of FCIV in Windows 10, and that may work for some. Some reference an FCIV command, which apparently works automatically in They suggest limited solutions, some of which work for certain users and others that do not. Like certutil after a command prompt, this command in PowerShell returns the SHA512 hash of file abc.exe at the location specified on the C: drive, and you may substitute other parameters to find their corresponding hash values.Īs for the same question posted elsewhere on these forums, few answers have been posted. Get-FileHash -Path c:\Users\JDoe\Desktop\abc.exe -Algorithm SHA512 You may use other values after SHA, such as 1 or 256, to produce the corresponding hash, and you may substitute MD5 or other supported parameters.Īnother method is to use Windows PowerShell (version 5.1 for me) with the command Get-FileHash: This command returns the SHA512 hash of file abc.exe located at the specified file path. For example:Ĭertutil -hashfile c:\Users\JDoe\Desktop\abc.exe SHA512 One method uses the command certutil in the command prompt window. Microsoft just makes it difficult to discover the tools needed I don't know if they work on other versions, but I would expect they do.
Windows 10 does offer two straightforward ways to find the hash values of files, at least using Windows 10 Home 圆4 as I did. Those explain options limited to prior versions of Windows and do not work for Windows 10. The answer to this question is simple enough, but I didn't find it in any Microsoft documentation or websites. Specified by the source of the file, for example, is an important security feature to ensure the integrity of the files you use.
I shared the following question several users have asked in other portions of Windows Support: In Windows 10, how does one calculate the checksum values of files? As most users know, matching the checksum value of a file on your computer against hash values