Resource Hacker is an utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete and extract resources in 32-bit and 64-bit Windows executables and resource files (*.res). The program can modify program icons as they appear in the taskbar, Start Menu and Desktop, among many other things.
It incorporates an internal resource script compiler and decompiler.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch ResourceHacker.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | ResEdit, RisohEditor |
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MIKLO
on 2016-10-09 14:10
Have been using for quite some time and really like this program. Thanks for a good program.
rbon
on 2016-10-15 12:20
Resource Hacker new Beta in 'Portable' zip format.
Ennovy
on 2020-11-14 14:03
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Changes in 5.1.8: |
RisohEditor is a resource editor for Win32 development. It supports adding, editing, extracting, cloning and removing resource data in EXE/DLL/RC/RES files. This includes resources such as dialogs, menus, icons, cursors, string tables, message tables etc.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | GPL |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch RisohEditorPortable.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | ResourceHacker, ResEdit |
What's new? | See: https://github.com/katahiromz/RisohEditor/releases |
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juverax
on 2022-03-31 15:34
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Softpedia download link (portable version): 404 Not found |
GDIView displays the list of Graphics Device Interface (GDI) handles including brushes, pens, fonts, bitmaps, and more opened by every process. It displays the total count for each type of GDI handle, as well as detailed information about each handle. This tool can be useful for developers that need to trace GDI resources leak in their software.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch GDIView.exe. |
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HeapMemView allows you to view the content of all memory blocks allocated in the heap of the process that you select. This tool can be useful for developers who need to trace memory leaks in their software.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch HeapMemView.exe. |
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PPEE (Professional PE file Explorer) allows analysis of malformed and crafted PE files, making it handy for reverse-engineering, malware researchers and more. The program includes PE Export, Import, Resource, Exception, Certificate (relies on Windows API), Base Relocation, Debug, TLS, Load Config, Bound Import, IAT, Delay Import and CLR.
The program includes a HEX editor and supports Virustotal and OPSWAT's Metadefender query reports.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Wine |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Delete Plugin folder. Launch PPEE.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | pestudio, MiTeC EXE Explorer |
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smaragdus
on 2018-04-12 09:27
@doctor__philippe
__philippe
on 2018-04-12 17:50
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Now that you mention it, I have been known to cure images hosting service broken links...;-) |
pestudio shows details about applications and other system files (.exe, .dll, .cpl, .ocx, .ax, .sys etc.) without starting them including:
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Free for personal use/Liteware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Delete AddToShell.reg and RemoveFromShell.reg. Launch pestudio.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | PPEE, PE Anatomist |
What's new? | See: https://www.winitor.com/tools/pestudio/changes.log |
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__philippe
on 2017-11-26 21:39
All righty,... next time round,
Special
on 2019-09-14 18:16
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Looks like with 8.98 they've removed even more features from the previous 9.87 free version (detect well-known whitelisted libraries/blacklisted resources), funny they don't mention that in the changelog. |
QIcon Changer is a small tool that allow you to patch the icon of any kind of application (including .exe and .scr), overwriting the previous icon resource with the new one you chose. Just drag an icon file (.ico) from your desktop then drop to the application layer then do the same process with your target application, drag an executable from your desktop then drop in the application layer then you can apply the modification and enjoy your new application icon.
Note: If the target application is compressed / packed it will not be able to patch the icon because most packer will make resource format invalid.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | None |
Stealth: ? | No. (details) |
License: | Freeware |
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Problems? This process requires an up-to-date component (Innounp 0.37 or above) for Universal Extractor. If you have difficulty extracting the files, follow the steps below and retry:
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Midas
on 2013-05-22 15:44
@bzl333: have a look at Folderico (http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=1301).
loin2kolpotoru
on 2014-03-12 04:43
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Try PEIconChanger - http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=21358 |
GACView is an alternative to the standard .NET assembly viewer on Windows Explorer. In addition to the standard columns, GACView displays additional information for each assembly, like modified date, file size, full path of the assembly file, file version, and so on. GACView also allows you to delete an assembly the cannot be uninstalled in the regular way.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch gacview.exe. |
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XN Resource Editor is a resource editor and PE module explorer. It works on RES, EXE and DLL files. It provides special support for Delphi programs by displaying all the modules that comprise a Delphi program, and letting you edit the properties of the components used on Delphi forms.
XN Resource Editor Portable is a portable wrapper for XN Resource Editor.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
License: | MPL/GPL |
How to extract: | Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch XNResourceEditorPortable.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | Resource Hacker |
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Ralph
on 2011-02-24 03:13
Yes [Web Site] needs updating to URL in Synopsis: http://www.wilsonc.demon.co.uk/d10resourceeditor.htm
Midas
on 2012-07-11 10:12
Entry needs updating. There isn't any mention of a 'Portable Edition' at the download link: there are two downloadables, a 'xn_resourceeditor_setup.exe' (which can be UniExtracted) and a 'xnresourceeditor.zip' -- in the end, the difference between the two is that you get an extra 'readme.txt' inside the '{app}' folder from the first...
shnbwmn
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Website and download links dead - domain for sale. |
ResThief is a tiny tool to extract resources from binary files. It will examine every executable dropped on its window and extract all the resources (bitmaps, icons, AVI's, sounds, text... anything a programmer cares to stuff into a program) and save them as separate files.
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Runs on: | WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | None |
Unicode support: | No |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch ResThief.exe. |
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ResEdit is a resource editor. You can use it if you want to use dialogs, icon, version information or other types of resources. Output files can be compiled by any Win32 compiler, like MinGW and Microsoft Visual C++.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the 7z package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch ResEdit.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | ResourceHacker, RisohEditor |
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Midas
on 2015-04-26 12:26
Maybe I'm just dense, but I use resource editors frequently, yet could never get the hang of ResEdit. Can anyone suggest some kind of straightforward tutorial?
__philippe
on 2017-04-07 16:34
@Midas,
Midas
on 2017-04-08 02:53
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Thanks __philippe. As I never did get the hang of ResEdit, ResourceHacker is still my number one go to hacking tool. (Has been like forever.) :) |
Visual Terrain Maker is a simple 3D-modeling program allows visually create landscapes (maps) for games or other purposes. The program can export to Direct X file format(*.x). The program is not critical to the video adapters and drivers. Suitable for DarkBasic developers.
Note: The main site no longer lists the program, listing a Softpedia mirror.
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Runs on: | WinNT / Win2K / WinXP |
Writes settings to: | None |
Dependencies: | OpenGL v1.1 |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch VTM.exe. |
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Babyscout19
on 2014-06-28 21:21
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I want to REALLY download this to make some soft terrains and backgrounds...... But i cant because the site has changed and now it asks me what system I am running and the budget I have available to spend.... I would like this to be updated... So as for now, unfortunately, thumbs down. Please update as necessary and I will be happy to review the program further. :) |
PEAnatomist shows almost all known data structures inside a PE file and makes some analytics.
Current version provides an entropy histogram possibly handy for cursory PE forensics
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | MIT License |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch PEAnatomist.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | PPEE, MiTeC EXE Explorer, pestudio |
What's new? | See: https://rammerlabs.alidml.ru/changelog-eng.html |
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__philippe
on 2019-12-28 12:07
PE Anatomist changelog history:
__philippe
on 2021-11-05 10:42
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PEanatomist notably includes (since v0.2.4) a colorful byte-level entropy(*) histogram of the file under analysis, possibly handy for inquiring minds dabbling in PE forensics ? |
Handler provides various information about a certain window or just any control under the mouse cursor. In addition, it will also reveal any text in an obscured password entry field.
Note: The application website appears to be down, so I have enabled direct download for this entry.
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Runs on: | Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP |
Writes settings to: | None |
Stealth: ? | No |
License: | Free for personal use |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch handler.exe. |
MiTeC EXE Explorer reads and displays executable file properties and structure. It is compatible with PE32 (Portable Executable), PE32+ (64bit), NE (Windows 3.x New Executable) and VxD (Windows 9x Virtual Device Driver) file types, as well as .NET executables.
The program identify compiler and packer/protector, enumerates introduced classes, used units and forms for files compiled by Borland compilers. It contains powerfull Resource Viewer that is able to abalyze and display all basic resouce types and some extra ones as JPEG, PNG, GIF, AVI, REGISTRY and Type Library viewer that enumerates all objects and creates import interface unit in Object Pascal language. Every type of resource can be saved to file.
Program data can be output to a text report.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | If "File | Persistent Layout" option is enabled, an INI file will be written to '%APPDATA%\MITEC\EXE Explorer'. Also writes to the Registry when "File | Shell Integration" is enabled (saved to 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\shell\EXE Explorer'). |
Stealth: ? | Yes. But only without persistent layout or shell integration; otherwise see "Writes settings to" above. |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Free for personal use |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch EXE.exe or EXE64.exe (for 64-bit OS). |
Similar/alternative apps: | PPEE, PEAnatomist, pestudio |
What's new? | See: https://mitec.cz/exe.html#VersionHistory |
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CornHolio the Gringo
on 2018-02-06 16:27
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All MiTeC software that I use, writes to registry. |