How to calculate the SHA 256 hash sum of Everything

[void]

Every version of Everything has an associated sha hash file.
For example, Everything 1.4.1.895 has the following sha hash file:
Everything-1.4.1.895.sha256

8b2ce3f3a0fde214641d526d5a341f46a05ff8fd79dcb6e75d8cebd75317398a *Everything-1.4.1.895.x64-Setup.exe
6e2eb80112343d0f93989e0cb985055792c6402649aa0d11145726ccf896bb32 *Everything-1.4.1.895.x86-Setup.exe
b78a85f2d360079bc82b624d8c71ecd0628af69b0774827e2495e6beee7d7531 *Everything-1.4.1.895.x64.en-US-Setup.exe
c3a2e0246c76c9578738c84297a66f8b88477883f403d1f223482b189707f7c2 *Everything-1.4.1.895.x86.en-US-Setup.exe
e7c0e506b9c308f3d1857288855eeda6d8ec3504b3a7f01474c5dcea495ab9d9 *Everything-1.4.1.895.x64.zip
8d3d85888ccd01612993f89a9d79df11edb2f06de78972fa71656f74920ce342 *Everything-1.4.1.895.x86.zip
0f91960c84791d4c833a4941bc2f042bd7ddfa99dc13e8ece62b3b5c6c0fe857 *Everything-1.4.1.895.x64.en-US.zip
c19429493355d57a7fc43072d10fb50b9a5c475943fc660f33fe172aa8dc2d68 *Everything-1.4.1.895.x86.en-US.zip
#x86:
35c4a6c1474eb870eec901cef823cc4931919a4e963c432ce9efbb30c2d8a413 *Everything.exe
#x64:
4e7f84fef2dcf5cf8ec328653d0fd08c0a59c4c194d2a1aafa5b613f3b2c0aa5 *Everything.exe

These long strings are unique to each file and can be used to verify that the downloaded file originally came from voidtools.

To calculate the SHA 256 sum of a downloaded file:

• From a command prompt, run:
  CertUtil -hashfile C:\Downloads\Everything.exe SHA256
• Where C:\Downloads\Everything.exe is the file to calculate the SHA 256 sum.

MD5 sums are also available for every version of Everything, for example:
Everything-1.4.1.895.md5

a4e9802632d9441ed55b0292153b98f9 *Everything-1.4.1.895.x64-Setup.exe
f8ca56964f10b3042bf06eabac6a4029 *Everything-1.4.1.895.x86-Setup.exe
1080f7ad821da7af10c9b5b09881eff7 *Everything-1.4.1.895.x64.en-US-Setup.exe
2cd33ff7b95129657b7c64c97b86c9fe *Everything-1.4.1.895.x86.en-US-Setup.exe
fcfa06ca46f68c9ab87791f4d0d436f7 *Everything-1.4.1.895.x64.zip
1450f8759bf734d98bb6c4037ec26cf6 *Everything-1.4.1.895.x86.zip
9d189eef250757dc57d2a813aae90cb2 *Everything-1.4.1.895.x64.en-US.zip
4de0769921551ea0dff98b911e98c885 *Everything-1.4.1.895.x86.en-US.zip
#x86:
8add121fa398ebf83e8b5db8f17b45e0 *Everything.exe
#x64:
0a02476bd4a0e3f367a7922a3d456626 *Everything.exe

To calculate the MD5 sum of a downloaded file:

• From a command prompt, run:
  CertUtil -hashfile C:\Downloads\Everything.exe MD5
• Where C:\Downloads\Everything.exe is the file to calculate the MD5 sum.

Everything is also code signed by David Carpenter.
Everything is now signed by voidtools.

[therube]

Calculating MD5, SHA1 and SHA256 for Everything


PS:

certutil is not available on XP.
(Though I do have certutil.ex_ from an old Win2K boot CD, that I'm sure I can expand.)
(Expands, but doesn't seem to accomplish anything, on XP. I also have a sha256sum.exe that works. [And md5sum.exe that works on .md5.])

Of course you can use a GUI hash utility (or other command-line utility).
Not all may handle ".md5" or ".sha256" files, but should be able to handle the hashes found within the .md5 & .sha256 files.

[NotNull]

Of course you can use a GUI hash utility (or other command-line utility).
Not all may handle ".md5" or ".sha256" files, but should be able to handle the hashes found within the .md5 & .sha256 files.

Like 7-Zip ( a lot of people already have this installed). If you configure this in the options:

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Then you get an extra context-menu entry (in File Explorer, Everything, other filemanagers, ...):

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Resulting in:

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Note that 7-Zip does not give you a MD5 checksum. Probably because MD5 is no longer safe (it is possible to change the file while keeping the MD5 hash the same). That being said, MD5 is still my default check as it is the fastest and accurate enough for my purposes, so now I'm going to disble this option again

[Stamimail]

Currently I'm using CHK Checksum Utility
with adding a shortcut (.lnk) of the EXE to SendTo folder