What is the best way to calculate a checksum for a file that is on my machine?

Question

I\'m on a Windows machine and I want to run a checksum on the MySQL distribution I just got. It looks like there are products to download, an unsupported Microsoft tool, an

Answer 1

Checksum tabs: http://code.kliu.org/hashcheck/

This has worked great for me on windows for a while now. It allows easy copying and pasting of checksums. It has box to type/paste check sums from webpages and show matches or non matches quite well.