In my day-to-day activities, I often need to verify the MD5 checksum of a file. Typically, I’m checking the checksum after downloading something from the Internet. Thus I want to verify that the downloaded file hasn’t been modified per the posted checksum. You’d be amazed at how often there is a difference. Mostly, because the publisher was lazy and didn’t post the right checksum or something got “touched” during transport.
Anyhow… Julie pointed the following post to be: https://mikedopp.com/archive/2008/05/16/windows-gui-based-md5-checker.aspx
Basically, they are using a GUI based utility called WinMD5 to verify checksums. That is cool and all. But, why use a GUI when you can use a command line tool. After all mouse clicking is overrated in my book. If anyone is interested, the tool that I use is called FSUM. They have a GUI version, but they also have a free command line version. Needless to say, I use the command line version, and I’m as happy as a goose, if geese were happy.
