HxD is a carefully designed and fast hex editor including raw disk editing, modifying foreign RAM and handling files of any size. The program includes search/replace (ASCII | Unicode), export, checksum/digests, insertion of byte patterns, file shredder, concatenation or splitting of files, statistics and more.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the "portable" installer inside the ZIP package, extract it and execute. Launch HxD32.exe or HxD64.exe. |
What's new? | Full changelog at https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/changelog.php |
Seconding Special's praise for HxD 2.0
HxD was remarkably useful yet in its former v1.1.7 incarnation.
Ten years on, the v2.0 release, resurrected from limbo, Phoenix-like,
offers an amazing list of new features and enhancements, such as:
• New Data Inspector
• New Unicode support
• Enhanced Search window
• …
https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/changelog.php
Recommended.
v2.0.0.0
v2.0.0.0 is now out in stable, after almost 10 long years, and it's still the best Hex editor!
v1.7.7.0
^ Opened up a 4 GB file. Editing/saving changes was possible; albeit saving was little slow the first time - after that saving is instantaneous. I am even able fill parts with random data, thus manually destroying the file. I haven't found anything else that could do such a thing. Notepad++, and others choke on such a huge file. I know there's other hex editors but this one satisfies.
V1.7.7.0
No better editor for viewing and editing large hex files.
XVI32 has scripts and XVIscript editor, but HxD has not (yet) these features. Please look inside HxD forum http://forum.mh-nexus.de/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=196
Looks really good. Time for XVI32 to retire ?
The solution to [Scrolling on Windows 10 tablet problem] is appreciated.
https://forum.mh-nexus.de/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=929
v2.2.0.0