I thought I had a corrupted download and wanted to relate my experience on how to validate the zip file downloads on Windows. The Boost archives (tar, zip, etc.) all have a matching small .json file that contains a SHA256 hash of the archive file. Under Windows 10, you can use certutil.exe from a command line to compute the hash for the archive and compare it to the value in the .json file: C:\Users\ken\Downloads>certutil -hashfile boost_1_75_0_b1_rc1.zip SHA256 SHA256 hash of boost_1_75_0_b1_rc1.zip: 07ddca7c39ea9152bad73bee4f10f2c9c8e3a2d7e153aa945a343f83eca5db59 CertUtil: -hashfile command completed successfully. (I thought my download was corrupted because I was using an ancient version (5.50) of InfoZip's unzip program and it was reporting errors. I updated to version 6 and it unpacked the same file just fine.)