CFF Explorer Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to CFF Explorer for Windows and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Windows alternative is Resource Hacker, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to CFF Explorer and 12 are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to CFF Explorer are PE-bear, Free Resource Extractor, PE Explorer and EXE Explorer.

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  1. PE-bear icon
     9 likes

    Portable Executable reversing tool with a friendly GUI.

    15 PE-bear alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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  2. Free Resource Extractor is a free and handy utility to scan all DLL, EXE and OCX files and extract built-in resources like icons, bitmaps, cursors, sounds, AVI videos, HTML files, metafiles, etc. Free Resource Extractor can even extract useful resources from system files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Warning
    • Bundleware

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. PE Explorer icon
     33 likes

    PE Explorer is 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.

    49 PE Explorer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. EXE Explorer icon
     8 likes

    It 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. .NET executables are supported too.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Restorator icon
     11 likes

    Restorator is an award-winning utility to edit windows resources in applications and their components, e.g. files with .exe, .dll, .res, .rc, .dcr, extension (see PE files and RES files).

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. ResEdit icon
     18 likes

    ResEdit is a free resource editor for Windows programs. You can use it if you want to use dialogs, icons, version information or other types of resources. Output files can be compiled by any Windows compiler that includes a resource compiler, like MinGW and Microsoft Visual C++.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Resource Tuner icon
     12 likes

    Resource Tuner lets you view, extract, replace, edit, and delete the embedded resources of executable files: icons, strings, images, sounds, dialogs, menus - all that make up the visual part of your Windows programs.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. XN Resource Editor is a free, powerful, fully featured resource editor and PE module explorer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
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  9. Relyze icon
     2 likes

    Relyze is an interactive software reverse engineering and analysis platform with the following main features:

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. PE Tools icon
     2 likes

    This is a fully-functional utility for working with PE/PE +(64bit) files. Including: Editor PE of files, Task Viewer, Win32 PE files optimizer, detector of compiler/packer and many other things.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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