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

Download fciv.exe directly from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=11533

shell> fciv.exe [yourfile]

will give you md5 by default.

You can read up the help file fciv.exe -h