Alternatives to CFF Explorer for all platforms with any license

  • Resource Hacker

    Resource Hacker has been designed to be the complete resource editing tool: compiling, viewing, decompiling and recompiling resources for both 32bit and 64bit Windows...

    Free Windows

    Portable Add a feature

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  • PE Explorer

    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...

    Commercial $ $ $ Windows

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  • Restorator

    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...

    Commercial Windows

    No features added Add a feature

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    • Discontinued The software seems to be no longer updated. Latest version was released in 2007, but it can be still bought from the official website.

  • Resource Tuner

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

    Commercial $ $ $ Windows

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  • Anolis Resourcer

    Flexible and extensible resource editor for Win32/PE applications under active development. Is "MUI Aware" and supports all the changes made to the resource...

    Free Open Source Windows

    Portable Add a feature

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    • Discontinued The program is no longer developed. Last version, 0.9, released on 1st September 2009, can be still downloaded from the official website.

  • Free Resource Extractor

    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...

    Free Windows

    No features added Add a feature

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    • Bundleware The installer contains adwares. Be careful during the installation: http://alternativeto.net/discussions/applications/11718/be-careful-in-the-installation/

  • XN Resource Editor

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

    Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com

    Portable Add a feature

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    • Discontinued The project is no longer updated and the official website is no longer available. Last version, 3.0.0.1, released in December 2005, can be still downloaded from an unofficial mirror.
    • A resources are only 50% of the portable executable. Guest • Feb 2018 Disagree   Agree

  • EXE Explorer

    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...

    Free Windows

    Portable Add a feature

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  • ResEdit

    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...

    Free Windows

    No features added Add a feature

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    • Warning It's no longer just a bundleware. Even if you set all not to install it will install a Bitcoin miner malware into Temp (important.exe) with guarding (file.exe) that runs it all the time and loads CPU 100%: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/30af9df193c11a31bd18ff3e063b4616b6b3e4244e9d91a1fd963bac213bc5c6/analysis/1483114519/ | https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/f03533a5ba02060acc5d89b189a7b170ed376f8ef661cedec68f71ee62a92c5b/analysis/1483114511/
    • Bundleware Full of adware and malware and forces installs

  • PEBrowse64 Professional

    PEBrowse64 Professional is a static-analysis tool and disassembler for Win64 executables and Microsoft .NET assemblies produced according to the Portable Executable...

    Free Personal Windows

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  • Relyze

    Relyze is an interactive software reverse engineering and analysis platform with the following main features: * Load PE and ELF binaries - Navigate a binaries...

    Commercial Windows

    Static analysis Add a feature

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  • PE Tools

    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...

    Free Open Source Windows

    No features added Add a feature

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    • Discontinued The project is no longer updated. Last version, v1.5 Build 400, can be still downloaded from the official website.

  • ResEd

    ResEd is an editor for resource script files (*.rc) which is also used in RadASM, FbEdit and MasmEd. As every RAD Software product, it makes application development easy...

    Free Windows

    No features added Add a feature

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    • Discontinued Site has been temporarily suspended according to author.

  • PE-bear

    PE-bear is a reversing tool for PE files. Objective: to deliver fast and flexible "first view" tool for malware analysts. Stable and capable to handle...

    Free Windows Linux

    Portable Add a feature

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    • Discontinued Discontinued per notice on website: https://hshrzd.wordpress.com/pe-bear/

  • Boilsoft Resource Hunter

    Resource Hunter is a perfect resource explorer/hacker/grabber can extract pe resource from exe, dll ,extract icon and image like gif, png, bitmap. You can use...

    Commercial Windows

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