Checksum Verify

Checksum Verify is an application you can use to create CRC2, MD5 and SHA1 hash files, as well as to check data integrity. It features approachable options that even less experienced users can tinker with.

Setting up this tool doesn't take long. However, because it's ad-supported, it offers to download and install third-party components that it doesn't actually need to work properly.

Unless you're interested, you can decline the offers to make a clean setup. On the other hand, you must have .NET Framework installed to be able to work with this app.

When it comes to the interface, Checksum Verify adopts a large window with a neatly structured layout, where you can easily put together checksum files by selecting the type (CRC2, MD5, SHA1), adding as many files as you want to the task list, as well as by indicating the saving directory and file name. Their contents can be copied as text without folder paths.

The program also gives you the possibility to validate the integrity of a hash file's contents, in order to find out if the checksums match the associated files.

When it comes to general preferences, you can make associations with SFV, MD5, PAR2 and SHA files, pick the number of threads to use and cache files to memory to enable multi-threading, disable the automatic checkups for software updates at startup, as well as change the UI theme.

We haven't come across any stability issues in our tests, thanks to the fact that it didn't freeze, crash or indicate errors. It used a minimal amount of CPU and RAM. Thanks to its advanced, yet intuitive options, Checksum Verify can be easily used. Plus, it's free.