Hasher v2.3.1

** Updated July 26, 2018

Compute and verify the MD5, SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384 or SHA-512 Hash Value of any text string, disk file, or group of files!

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A Hash Value is a sort of digital fingerprint, uniquely identifying each text string or file. If two strings or files have the same Hash Value, then they are virtually guaranteed to be identical.

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File	Version	Released	Size	SHA-1 Hash
pthasher-setup-v2.3.1.exe New! Download and run to install the Hasher	2.3.1	July 26, 2018	1,246,736 bytes	7A99B2FDC65AC6BB9D912EE8D7EC293FA2809DDE
pthasher-setup.exe Previous Version Download and run to install the Hasher	2.3.0	June 19, 2007	1,225,792 bytes	1EC260DE8CC76B75ED439DAABEEE0C24D7503A55
pthasher-src.exe Previous Version Programmers Only: Download VB6 Source Code	2.3.0	June 19, 2007	248,592 bytes	69DF18B6DC12F2C257DC4616EE04B90184BEFA04
vbrun60-setup.exe Download Visual Basic Runtime v6.0 Note: Karen's Hasher installer will automatically download and run the Visual Basic Runtime installer, if necessary.			1,044,480 bytes	084C127D1BC95D1341E7B17804749B033AB5398E

Known Problems

Task 56: Installer for v2.3.1 doesn't display text depending on accessibility settings (added July 27)
Shell default launch for file extensions doesn't work on Windows 10 (added July 27)

Enhancements/Bugs Fixed

Version 2.3.1: Task 51: Fixed "Runtime Error 76 (path not found)" error
Version 2.3: Made several changes to make program work under Windows Vista. These include an HTML-format help file, and changes to location where settings are stored.
Version 2.2.1: Made program more compatible with hash value files made by some other software (that delimit data with space instead of tab).
Version 2.2: Can now verify previously saved hash values, determining if the contents of files or folders have changed since the original hash values were computed and saved.
Version 2.1: Now supports SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512 algorithms, in addition to the original MD5.
Version 1.0: This is the first release.

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