Resource Hacker

Name: Resource Hacker
Rating: 4.7 (3 reviews)

Resource Hacker has been designed to be the complete resource editing tool.

Free • Proprietary
Windows

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Avg rating of 4.7 (3)| 6 comments

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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$Compiling can be initiated either by opening an existing resource script file, or by creating one from scratch using Resource Hacker's editor. A complete list of Resource-Definition Statements can be found here. Additional features of Resource Hacker's compiler include: The #INCLUDE directive (to access definition statements in header files etc) can be nested to multiple levels, as can the #IF, and #IFDEF directives. #DEFINE, #UNDEF, #IF, #ELIF, #ELSE, #IFDEF, #IFNDEF, #INCLUDE, and #PRAGMA directives are all supported. Strings, between double-quote (") characters, may contain typical 'C' style backslashed 'escaped' characters — \t , \n , \\ , \" , \x, \u and \377 (octal). A double-quote within a string must be 'escaped' using either a preceding backslash or with another double-quote. Script comments are preceded either by double forward-slashes (//) or by a semi-colon (;). Filenam...$

Once a resource file has been opened, its resources will generally be displayed as either an image (or group of images) or as decompiled text. Binary resources, usually images, can't be edited directly with Resource Hacker, but they can still be very easily exported and imported once they've been modified by an external image editor. (I see no benefit in duplicating what third-party image editors do so well.)

Menu and Dialog resource types have their own WYSIWYG designers:

Binary resources that have unknown formats will be displayed as read-only binary text. (Any resource can also be viewed in this fashion if desired.)

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Resource Hacker Features

PortableResource Hacker can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.

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Resource Hacker information

Developed byAngus Johnson
LicensingProprietary and Free product.
RatingAverage rating of 4.7
Alternatives22 alternatives listed

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Our users have written 6 comments and reviews about Resource Hacker, and it has gotten 170 likes

Resource Hacker was added to AlternativeTo by Journeyman on and this page was last updated . Resource Hacker is sometimes referred to as ResHacker.

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Yura

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Helped me to easily change some strings in a dialog.

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rrhyast

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File distributed by Microsoft Corporation. The sandbox Dr.Web vxCube flags this file as: CLEAN https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/080e97f7c198aeeac2a172f055c09d8da365b59b58bf6a71bde4486d9992ff66/detection

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ediferreira

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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

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bawldiggle

Comment• ago

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

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HughTash

Comment• ago

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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Tales_Warner

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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elmo40

UPDATE Latest Version 5.1.7 Last updated: 3 January 2019

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bawldiggle

@ Tales_Warner Some names, leads, URLs would be even more helpful.

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bawldiggle

And at $120 usd it is beyond my "wallet"
18-Jun-2020

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Furgelnod

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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.

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