Advanced CheckSum Verifier - MD5 and SFV checksum utility for Windows

eXpress CheckSum Verifier

eXpress CheckSum Verifier (XCSV) - v1.0.1 (Freeware!)
Freeware checksum verification utility for Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003

Introduction

XCSV is an small freeware utility for verifying integrity of files by using previously generated checksum files. The supported algorithms include CRC32 (Cyclic Redundancy Code), MD5 (Message Digest number 5) and SHA-1 (Secure Hash Algorithm). The supported checksum files formats include SFV (Simple File Verification), MD5SUM and BSD-style, or "alternative" format.

More information about using checksums for checking the integrity of files you can find on Advanced CheckSum Verifier homepage.

XCSV support only verifying the checksum files, see the ACSV for generating such files.

System requirements

any system running Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000 or Windows XP.
less than 0.6 Megabytes of free space on hard disk.

Download

xcsvi.exe - [an error occurred while processing this directive]b self-extracted EXE-file

Installation

XCSV is very simple utility and, for this reason, does not demand any installation utility. Simply unzip all files to any folder and run the executable file (usually, "xcsv.exe").

Overview

After starting the program, on the screen should appear the main program window. Click on the small button at right side of "Checksum file" edit field, and select the checksum file. Program will load the contents of checksum file into memory and show it on the list box field. The lines recognized as valid checksum values for appropriated files will be marked with small blue box, the format sign and the algorithm sign.

Then click on "Start" button for starting the checking of files. The files that have valid checksum will be marked with small green checkmark. The missing, corrupted or changed files will be marked with small red cross.

Click on the copyright notice at right bottom corner of window for visit the program homepage.

Command line parameters

Currently, XCSV don't support any command line parameters except the name of checksum file to processing. If you prefer to work with command line, you always can use the original MD5 utility, or other *-nix style utilites :).

Changes history

v1.0.1 - bugfix release.
v1.0.0 - first public release.

Copyrights and licenses

All copyrights to eXpress CheckSum Verifier are exclusively owned by the author - Irnis Haliullin.

Permission to use, copy, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. This software is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.