Fast Sum Alternatives
Fast Sum is described as 'Take control of your files' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Fast Sum for Windows, Linux and Windows Explorer. The best alternative is HashCheck Shell Extension, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Fast Sum are OpenHashTab, HashMyFiles, CHK Checksum Utility and MD5 & SHA Checksum Utility.
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Windows Explorer
The HashCheck Shell Extension makes it easy for anyone to calculate and verify checksums and hashes from Windows Explorer.
OpenHashTab is a shell extension for conveniently calculating and checking file hashes from file properties.
HashMyFiles is small utility that allows you to calculate the MD5 and SHA1 hashes of one or more files in your system.
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
CHK is an advanced checksum utility — a simple application designed to help you verify the integrity of your files, find duplicates and much more!.
MD5 & SHA Checksum Utility is a tool that allows you to generate CRC32, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512 hashes of single or multiple files. You can also verify hashes with the matching file to ensure the file integrity is correct.
FileVerifier++ is a Windows application for verifying the integrity of files. FileVerifier supports various algorithms by means of dynamically loadable hash libraries.
Discontinued
The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.6.3.5830, released in May 2010, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.
This tool will generate hash strings to validate directories and files, in the same vein as hashdeep or fciv. I wrote it after giving up trying to find a decent tool to validate my backups.
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dsMD5 is a MD5 hash-calculator. The beauty of this is its simplicity, tiny size (6KB) and ease of use.
Discontinued
The program is no longer updated. Last version, 1.0.2, released in 2004, can be still downloaded from the official website.
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A simple and elegant open-source hash checker software.
