Restorator AlternativesResource Editors and other similar apps like Restorator

Restorator is described as '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)' and is a Resource Editor in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Restorator for Windows and PortableApps.com. The best Restorator alternative is Resource Hacker, which is free. Other great apps like Restorator are Universal Extractor 2, PE Explorer, ResEdit and Resource Tuner.

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  1. Resource Hacker icon
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    Resource Hacker

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    Resource Hacker™ is a resource editor for 32bit and 64bit Windows® applications.

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    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

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    • Windows

    Resource Hacker Features

    1.  Portable
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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...
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    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.)
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    • Resource Hacker is the most popular Windows alternative to Restorator.

    • Resource Hacker is the most popular free alternative to Restorator.

    • Resource Hacker is Free and ProprietaryRestorator is Paid and Proprietary
  2. Universal Extractor 2 icon
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    Universal Extractor 2

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    Universal Extractor 2 is an unofficial updated and extended version of the original UniExtract by Jared Breland. It brings several hundred changes including community-wanted ones such as a batch mode, auto-updater and scan-only-functionality.

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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Universal Extractor 2 Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Multiple languages
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    • Universal Extractor 2 is the most popular Open Source alternative to Restorator.

    • Universal Extractor 2 is Free and Open SourceRestorator is Paid and Proprietary
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    PE Explorer

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    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.

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    • Windows

    PE Explorer Features

    1.  Disassembler
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    Discontinued

    Not updated for very long time, no 64bit support.

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    • PE Explorer is the most popular commercial alternative to Restorator.

    • PE Explorer is Paid and ProprietaryRestorator is also Paid and Proprietary
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    ResEdit

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    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++.

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    The Dialog Editor

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    The icon/cursor editor
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    Discontinued

    The official website is no longer available and the program was not updated since May 2015. Last version, 1.6.6, can be still downloaded from Wayback Machine

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  6. Resource Tuner icon
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    Resource Tuner

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    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.

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  7. XN Resource Editor icon
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    XN Resource Editor

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

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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com

    XN Resource Editor Features

    1.  Portable
    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.

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  9. Free Resource Extractor icon
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    Free Resource Extractor

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    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.

    15 Free Resource Extractor alternatives
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    • Free • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    Bundleware

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

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  10. RisohEditor icon
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    RisohEditor

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    "RisohEditor" is a free resource editor for Win32 development. RisohEditor realized the ideal of resource editor.

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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    • Windows
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    ResEd

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    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 and fast by providing sophisticated functions and integrated clever tools.

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    Dialog editor

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    Discontinued

    Site has been temporarily suspended according to author.

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  12. Redwood - resources extractor icon
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    Redwood - resources extractor

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    View and extract resources from EXE, DLL, OCX, CPL or any other Windows 32 & 64 Bit PE file. The embedded resources are shown in a tree sorted by language and type. Pictures like BMP, PNG, JPG, AVI movies, icons, cursors, dialogs, string tables and version info are shown in...

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    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  13. Boilsoft Resource Hunter icon
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    Boilsoft Resource Hunter

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

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