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Where did this installer actually come from?

Search “download VLC” and the first results are ads and mirrors that repackage the file. For 177 desktop programs, file.wiki publishes the download URL the publisher declares, the SHA-256 hash of every installer, and the command to check it yourself. We host nothing and rewrite nothing.

Every field comes from Microsoft's winget-pkgs manifests and the Homebrew cask index. Each page links back to its source so you can check our work.

177
programs indexed
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installers
507
SHA-256 hashes
8,475
versions on record
1,378
file extensions

What we flagged

3 of 177

Most of these installers check out. These are the ones where something in the manifest does not, with the specific reason attached.

Software

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How to open a file

All 1378 extensions

Full guides for the formats that actually stop people, each one ending in a verified download rather than a link to somewhere else.

Everything else we index

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Which programs register themselves to open a given format, taken from the same manifests.