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The File Checksum Integrity Verifier (FCIV) is a utility from Microsoft for checking hashes of files.

The File Checksum Integrity Verifier (FCIV) is a utility from Microsoft for checking hashes of files.

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Creating Simple Custom Context Menu Commands - How can a VB Script be made to run that uses the file path/name that was right clicked?

I downloaded a file and wanted to verify it's MD5 Checksum. 7Zip's file context menu output doesn't include an MD5 checksum, so I downloaded fciv.exe from the Windows site, and copied it into my System32 folder. Then I went down the rabbit hole of…
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Get FCIV (or same) checksum in VBA

How can I execute FCIV and obtain a hash for a file using VBA?
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Why isn't "fciv" command correctly recognized in Batch files with "for" cycles?

Assuming that the fciv.exe file has been placed in the system directory C:\WINDOWS\system32, it works correctly both when it is recalled from command prompt and when it is used in Batch scripting files. For instance: @echo off fciv -md5…
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Windows FCIV md5chucksum utility doesn't have the right md5sum when export to xml

Here is the command I use (on a windows box): $ FCIV -md5 C:\Files -xml C:\data\config.xml -r It creates the xml as expected but the md5 checksums seem to be wrong. If I run the following command: $ FCIV -md5 file.txt I get what I believe to be…
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Command line utility or C# code to compute 200,000 file changes in a directory hierarchy quickly?

Using Microsoft FCIV which computes SHA-1 file checksums, I created a text file with file names and checksums: "8697c58c606122c30e2a20f1eabd6919" "g:\00258\99481\99481.eps" "b77a6b392c002bb9cc51f48170487dea" "g:\00258\99481\99481.eps" My intent is…
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Get FCIV to scan hidden files within a batch script

I am attempting to hash all or most of the files off of a machine using a batch script. What I thought would be straight forward was of course not as FCIV will not scan hidden files. I attempted to make a for loop that would scan the individual…
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SQL Server data type for base64-encoded SHA1 hash values output by FCIV

I'm using Microsoft's FCIV utility to compute SHA1 hash values of xml files. The xml files are periodically re-released in batches, but many of the files don't change from one release to the next. By comparing a newly released file's SHA1 hash…
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Why hash code values are different for different tools?

I have created Hash code of an .iso file using fciv.exe. I have used MD5 and SHA1 algorithm. Then I found Get-filehash -Path "c:\MyProject.iso" -Algorithm Sha1 cmdlet in PowerShell, as it is very easy I used that. But both the tools created…
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CSUM's md5 calculation is different from fciv

Is any reason why calculated by CSUM MD5 hash is different from the same hash calculated by fciv program on Windows?
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Invoke FCIV within Powershell Script

I am using the FCIV ( Microsoft File Checksum Integrity Verifier ) executable to automatically calculate checksums for certain files. I want to invoke this executable within a powershell script. This is my snippet within Powershell. & "Path to…
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Powershell: FCIV script error: "Cannot find path because it does not exist"

I am new to PowerShell, so I may have missed something simple. I am trying to run a file checksum for Start-PsFCIV, outlined here. My attempt is below, where I have also tried excluding the -Path parameter, as well as using relative/absolute paths.…
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how do i input a parameter explicitly from outside to the program in vbscript?

i have written a program which calculates the HASH of all files of a folder and saves it an an xml file. now my objective is that i want to give the folder to be evaluated, explicitly from outside the program Dim WshShell, oExec, input Set…
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how to write into an xml using vbscript

how to write in an xml file using vbscript??? I want to print the size and type of various files into an xml file and list it. how do I do it? for example: folder E has 3 files. so wanna write a program such tht the program checks folder E, and…
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Checksum of file in vbscript

I have the following command "C:\Program Files\File Checksum Integrity Verifier\fciv.exe" -sha1 "D:\new.txt" How to run this command from vbscript? Can anybody help me?
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Generate checksum in vbscript

I have a tool "File Checksum Integrity Verifier" to generate checksum. Can anybody help me how to run this tool from vbscript to get checksum for a file? Any help would be really appreciated.
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