Built-in utility for calculating MD5 and SHA1 checksums in Windows 10

To calculate MD5 checksum of a file in Windows 10 open a command prompt and run the following command:

certutil -hashfile <path to the file> MD5

to calculate SHA1 replace MD5 parameter used above with SHA1:

certutil -hashfile <path to the file> SHA1

The possible values of this parameter are: MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512

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