Alternatives to Resource Hacker for all platforms with any license

  • 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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  • 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...

    • 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 Open Source Windows

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  • XN Resource Editor

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

    • Discontinued The project is no longer updated and the official website is no longer available.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.

    Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com

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  • 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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  • 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...

    • Discontinued The software seems to be no longer updated.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.

    Commercial Windows

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  • 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...

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

    Free Windows

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  • Resource Hacker FX

    Resource Hacker FX is an improved Resource Hacker: it is a patcher that needs to be used on the original Resource Hacker v3.6.0.92.

    • Discontinued This patch is discontinued.

    Free Windows Resource Hacker

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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

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  • ResourcesExtract

    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...

    Free Windows

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  • Resource Editor

    The primary focus of the resource editor is RES files with a heavy bias toward the resource types commonly used by Delphi developers, but all common resource file...

    Free Windows

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  • DotNetResourcesExtract

    DotNetResourcesExtract is a small utility that scan dll/exe files of .NET applications, and extract all .NET embedded resources (Bitmaps, Gifs, HTML files, and so on)...

    Free Windows

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Try PE Explorer and Resource Tuner

Comment by HughTash
about Resource Hacker and PE Explorer, Resource Tuner · Oct 2014 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

If you're having problems with Resource Hacker, try PE Explorer and Resource Tuner by Heaventools Software.

PE Explorer and Resource Tuner aren't free, but you can use TRIAL versions to fulfill your needs.

Personally, I was unable to change Google Chrome icons using Process Hacker, because after changing icons, Google Chrome simply wouldn't start. Resource Tuner allowed me to change Google Chrome icons successfully in a very convenient way.

By the way, Resource Hacker is discontinued and the last version of Resource Hacker v3.6.0.92 was released in 2011-09-16, contrary to Resource Tuner v2.01 which was released in 2014-10-01.

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Comment by Furgelnod
about Resource Hacker · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

A staple tool in many window smashers pockets. All soughts of customisations can and have been done to binaries using resource hacker.

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Comment by kwoxer
about Resource Hacker · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Awesome tool to change your whole Windows.

Change Windows Start Button.
http://www.youtube.com/user/kwoxer1#play/uploads/3/3xl-_X-roPg

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