Open source Windows MD5 checker

winMd5Sum is an awesome, free (gpl) Windows program, that belongs to the category Security software.

More about winMd5Sum

Since the program has been added to our selection of software and apps in 2006, it has already reached 21,850 downloads, and last week it gained 11 installations.

It’s available for users with the operating system Windows 98 and former versions, and it is available in English. Its current version is 1.0 and was updated on 2/22/2006.

About the download, winMd5Sum is a relatively light program that doesn’t take up as much storage space than many programs in the section Security software. It’s very heavily used in Russian Federation, India, and China.

One of the most common uses is to make sure that a file that you have downloaded is not corrupt. Some websites post the MD5 checksum of a file on their download page.

Once you have downloaded the file, use winMd5Sum to get the MD5 checksum of the file on your computer. Then make sure that the MD5 checksum from the web site is the same.