
Resource Hacker
Resource Hacker has been designed to be the complete resource editing tool.
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
What is Resource Hacker?
Resource Hacker™ is a resource editor for 32bit and 64bit Windows® applications.
It's both a resource compiler (for .rc files), and a decompiler - enabling viewing and editing of resources in executables (.exe; *.dll; .scr; etc) and compiled resource libraries (.res, *.mui).
While Resource Hacker™ is primarily a GUI application, it also provides many options for compiling and decompiling resources from the command-line.
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Resource Hacker Features
Resource Hacker information
Supported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
Tags
- resources
- reverse-engineering
- Tweaks
- development
- dll-viewer
- extract-resources
- exe-editor
- modify-exe
- Developer Tools
- resource-editor
Recent user activities on Resource Hacker
Korwin doesn't think innoextract is an alternative to Resource Hacker
Korwin thinks Universal Extractor 2 is an alternative to Resource Hacker
neoOpus liked Resource Hacker
Helped me to easily change some strings in a dialog.
File distributed by Microsoft Corporation. The sandbox Dr.Web vxCube flags this file as: CLEAN https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/080e97f7c198aeeac2a172f055c09d8da365b59b58bf6a71bde4486d9992ff66/detection
SecureAge APEX says that is Malicious | FileRepMalware [PUP] Cynet says that is Malicious (score: 100) | Trojan.Swrort File is not signed #direct-cpu-clock-access #peexe #runtime-modules https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/4ab1a1035588f0c99b00e39d87ef9a0d940437a05802f0e75956ab65149133be/detection
Latest release v5.1.7 (3-Feb-2019)
Illustrated help/instructions on Resource Hacker - Home page are v.very helpful.
I have changed application icons, to make them more obvious in "TaskBar"
There are 2 editions of offline installer EXE and ZIP versions (by the developer)
And one portable (PAF) version (courtesy of PortableApps.com)
18-Jun-2020
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.
PE Explorer is a easy disassembling tool and code viewer for beginners and lay people interested in reverse engineering, but it doesn't support x64 programs. For those interested in that specific feature, there's a lot of free alternative 32 and 64 bits disassembling tools.
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UPDATE Latest Version 5.1.7 Last updated: 3 January 2019
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@ Tales_Warner Some names, leads, URLs would be even more helpful.
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And at $120 usd it is beyond my "wallet"
18-Jun-2020
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A staple tool in many window smashers pockets. All soughts of customisations can and have been done to binaries using resource hacker.