title: What is the best way to calculate a checksum for a file that is on my machine?
body: <p>I'm on a Windows machine and I want to run a checksum on the MySQL distribution I just got.  It looks like there are products to download, an unsupported Microsoft tool, and probably other options.  I'm wondering if there is a consensus for the best tool to use.  This may be a really easy question, I've just never run a checksum routine before.</p>