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How to compute the MD5 or SHA-1 cryptographic hash values for a file

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Simple way to create a MD5 hash value of a file with windows command line tool:

https://support.microsoft.com/de-ch/help/889768/how-to-compute-the-md5-or-sha-1-cryptographic-hash-v...

Its necessary to download the following tool:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/841290

After extracting the exe file you can add the extraction path to environment variable "PATH" in the system settings to access the tool from any location in cmd: