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

Best utility for Windows is HashCheck that is now on GitHub. https://github.com/gurnec/HashCheck/releases/tag/v2.4.0

Install HashCheck. Now right click on the file -> Create verification file. It will create a file.extension.md5 file with MD5 code in it.

Love it.