HashCheck Shell Extension
File-integrity verification with CRC-32, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2 and SHA-3, integrated into Windows file-properties dialog box.
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- TimAustralia reviewed HashCheck Shell ExtensionTiNo thanks, it's annoying. You have to save a file, involving multiple steps. HashMyFiles just gives you a popup and adds new files to it. The only problem is its not always reliable. I want a simple shellex that just QUICKLY and SIMPLY shows me if two files are the same.
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Biggest upside of this tool is the fact it's integrated with shell, since such a basic functionality should be instantly accessible with seamless feel, and HashCheck does the job perfectly. Also being open source is a huge plus.
Site newb here, 1st post. Sorry for a bit of title shouting but previous reviews are now not as current. See the GitHub (more towards pg bottom for windows) for this handy utility, now updated to v2.4 as of Sept 7, 2016. Still small footprint, still seamless integration into Windows shell adds "Checksums" tab to file Properties page. Copy/Pasta hash from site into Find box, press find and successful hash match will highlight. Multiple file speed is improved. YMMV, I'm on Win7SP1 patched, so I can't comment Win8/10. I grabbed IfranView64 off their website, bounced to Downloads.net and verified my files quite easily.
This tool is used to verify a file is original, by calculating md5 / sha1 etc
yet on it's own webpage,
NO md5 / sha1 for THIS program itself is given.
The program is NOT digitally signed.
It's like an insurance sales who him/herself don't buy an insurance.
ironic.
SHA256 checksums have been provided with every release for at least a year by the time this comment was written. Since September 2016, binaries are also digitally signed.
It should be noted that, unlike the digital signature, the checksum does not ensure any trust or integrity. Seeing as you get the hash file from the same source as the application itself, if one was compromised, then so would the other. The checksum can help detect transfer issues or file corruption, although that is very unlikely to happen to a 500 kB installer. Which, more importantly, comes as an LZMA-packed NSIS installer, and as such already contains a checksum self-verification, so the hash file is largely redundant.
Reply written almost 5 years ago
Copy paste from the download site:
"v2.4.0
@gurnec gurnec released this on 8 Sep 2016 · 1 commit to master since this release
Assets
497 KB HashCheckSetup-v2.4.0.exe
93 Bytes HashCheckSetup-v2.4.0.exe.sha256"
I wonder what this small 93 KB file is for...
Reply written almost 4 years ago
I am writing the 1st comment in dec of 2015, and from Anamon's post of feb 2017, the sha256 is only added AFTER my post.
Anyone who ask what the .sha256 file is, is wasting our TIME.
Reply written almost 4 years ago
@LT: You're right, I forgot that you could add additional files to GitHub releases for as long as you want. When I wrote my comment, I just saw that release v2.2.2 from 7 Dec 2014 had an .sha256 file, but of course it could have been added after your comment. GitHub says the file's last modified date is actually 23 May 2017, which also doesn't make any sense since it was already there when I commented in Feb 2017. But anyway, as mentioned the file is pretty much superfluous anyway.
Reply written over 3 years ago
No thanks, it's annoying. You have to save a file, involving multiple steps. HashMyFiles just gives you a popup and adds new files to it. The only problem is its not always reliable. I want a simple shellex that just QUICKLY and SIMPLY shows me if two files are the same.
Moments like this is why I feel I love AlternativeTo, ever since I found it. Up to now I have been using Hashtab along with QuickSFV, for checking hashes of individual files along with creating SFV files to check file corruption of some of my files I have in a collection.
Now that I finally stopped living under a rock, again thanks to AlternativeTo, I found a program that not only does both of these things for me, but also offers the features of checking each and every file in a folder and it's subfolders.
Love this, love this, love this! 5 stars =D
Extra kudos for being able to read sfv files QuickSFV has created, which I am guessing that might be normal, as in sfv files are universal probably, but still it makes me happy =D
Pending approval
Still works and tested with Windows 10 Pro
It is better than HashTab. It's a open source.