Reference Hacker is a resource editor regarding 32bit and 64bit Windows PC programs. It's both a resource compiler (for *. rc files), and a decompiler - enabling viewing and editing associated with resources in executables (*. exe; 5.. dll; *. scr; etc) and put together resource libraries (*. res, *. mui). While Resource Hacker™ is primarily the GUI application, additionally, it provides many choices for compiling and decompiling resources coming from the command-line. Compiling can be started either by opening an existing reference script file or by creating a single from the beginning using Resource Hacker's editor. As soon as a resource file has been opened up, its resources will generally be exhibited as either an image (or team of images) or as decompiled textual content. Binary resources, usually images, can't end up being edited directly with the app, nevertheless they can still be very quickly exported and imported once they've been revised by an external image editor. (I see no benefit in duplicating just what third-party image editors do so properly. ) Just about all the features of Resource Hacker™ could be accessed coming from the command line without having in order to open the Resource Hacker™ GUI. Command-line instructions and Resource Hacker™ scripts may take away the drudgery entailed with repeating Reference Hacker™ tasks. Some executable files are usually "packed" or "compressed" using compression methods. Not only does this reduces file size, nevertheless it also makes viewing and adjusting resources marginally more difficult. I believe that this resource 'hiding' is (or was) a common objective in this particular process. Anyhow, in deference to these types of authors, I've chosen not to unpack files with the program. Being an aspect note, it seems that "packed" executables are becoming quite uncommon over the final 5-10 years, and software authors are usually exposing more instead of less information within executable resources. I suspect that early concerns about the loss of perceptive property with reverse engineering have already been allayed. Features and Highlights View assets in Win32 executable files (*. exe, *. dll, *. cpl, *. ocx) and Win32 resource files (*. res) both in their compiled and decompiled platforms. Extract (save) resources to file within: *. res format; as a binary; or as decompiled resource scripts or even images. Icons, bitmaps, cursors, menus, dialogs, string tables, massage tables, accelerators, Borland forms, and version info resources may be fully decompiled to their respective platforms, whether as image files or 5.. rc text files. Modify (rename or even replace) resources in executables. Image assets (icons, cursors, and bitmaps) can end up being replaced with an image from the corresponding image file (*. ico, 5.. cur, *. bmp), a *. vaca file, as well as another *. exe document. Dialogs, menus, string tables, accelerators, in addition to message table resource scripts (and likewise Borland forms) can be edited in addition to recompiled using the internal resource software editor. Resources can also be replaced with resources from a *. res document so long as the replacement resource is associated with the same type and has the particular same name. Add new resources in order to executables. Enable a program to help multiple languages, or add a custom made icon or bitmap (company logo, etc) to a program's dialog. Delete assets. Most compilers add resources into programs that are never used by the application form. Removing these unused resources can decrease an application's size. Download Resource Hacker Newest version