PE Explorer Alternatives

PE Explorer is described as 'The most feature-packed program for inspecting the inner workings of your own software, and more importantly, third party Windows applications and libraries for which you do not have source code' and is a Resource Editor in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to PE Explorer for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and PortableApps.com apps. The best PE Explorer alternative is Resource Hacker, which is free. Other great apps like PE Explorer are HxD, 010 Editor, Malcat and Explorer Suite.

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    HT is a file editor/viewer/analyzer for executables. The goal is to combine the low-level functionality of a debugger and the usability of IDEs. We plan to implement all (hex-)editing features and support of the most important file formats.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
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  2. Resource Hunter is a perfect resource explorer/hacker/grabber can extract pe resource from exe, dll ,extract icon and image like gif, png, bitmap.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  3. View and extract resources from EXE, DLL, OCX, CPL or any other Windows 32 & 64 Bit PE file. The embedded resources are shown in a tree sorted by language and type. Pictures like BMP, PNG, JPG, AVI movies, icons, cursors, dialogs, string tables and version info are shown in...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. File Peek icon
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    Use the built-in hex editor, get MD5, SHA1, SHA256 hashes and Base64 with one click, or change the modified and created dates.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  5. Hexer icon
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    Hexer is an open-source hex editor for Windows featuring direct view of all kinds of data interpretations, and in-line data type annotation system with markers which is reusable across files.

    Cost / License

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. RisohEditor icon
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    "RisohEditor" is a free resource editor for Win32 development. RisohEditor realized the ideal of resource editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. Frhed icon
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    Frhed(Free hex editor) is an binary file editor for Windows. It is small but has many advanced features like ability to load big files partially. String replacement, multi-language, and other features.

    47 Frhed alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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  8. Catch22 HexEdit icon
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    HexEdit is a hexadecimal file editor for Microsoft Windows. HexEdit allows the user to view and edit any type of file, no matter what format it is saved in.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. ResourcesExtract is a small utility that scans dll/ocx/exe files and extract all resources (bitmaps, icons, cursors, AVI movies, HTML files, and more...) stored in them into the folder that you specify.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. Hecate icon
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    The Hex Editor From Hell! Hecate is a terminal hex editor that, instead of putting the (ASCII) representation of bytes way out on the right side of the screen, it puts the interpreted values directly beneath the hex representation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. Extract Thousands Pictures, Videos, Music, Sounds hidden inside programs / files on your computer with AllMedia Grabber. AllMedia Grabber searches in files (executables, libraries, custom controls, data files e.t.c.) and extracts multimedia files.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. DHEX icon
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    DHEX is a more than just another hex editor: It includes a diff mode, which can be used to easily and conveniently compare two binary files. Since it is based on ncurses and is themeable, it can run on any number of systems and scenarios.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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