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How does the Windows Live Installer calculate the file hashes

 
 
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      02-17-2009
Was looking at the cache.ini file for installing the different Windows Live
programs and tried and see if I could get the same hashes. I could not I
tried several algorithms. How does the Windows Live Installer calculate the
hashes?
 
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      02-18-2009
Greetings,

I don't have an answer for you, but I thought I'd mention that I haven't figured it out
either.

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> Was looking at the cache.ini file for installing the different Windows Live
> programs and tried and see if I could get the same hashes. I could not I
> tried several algorithms. How does the Windows Live Installer calculate the
> hashes?



 
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