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built-in checksum utility on Windows

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

Original solution by Laisvis Lingvevicius

 

ref: http://superuser.com/questions/245775/is-there-a-built-in-checksum-utility-on-windows-7/898377?stw=2#898377