If, on the other hand, you want to install this program, just run the setup package and follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation procedure. These files are essential if you want to use the portable version of the program, which is found in the archive ( WinHex.exe). What you download initially is an archive that contains several files, including the setup package. WinHex promises to fill the position of such a software, since it has many features and an easy to use interface that tries to minimize the effort of analyzing hex data in files, disks and physical memory. Power users definitely need to have a tool installed which will allow them to view and edit hex data in disks and the RAM, in a way that is convenient and doesn’t make things more complicated than they already are. ' Hex Editor, Disk Editor, and RAM Editor'

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While it's a little expensive, WinHex is also a supremely versatile hex editor with many interesting features. Other options will help you compare, split and join files, erase files securely, or create disk images for later analysis.Īnd although they're not available in this trial version, if you pay for a Specialist or Forensic licence then you'll have all kinds of advanced drive manipulation tools available: the program can reconstruct RAID systems, gather and display free, slack or inter-partition space, carry out detailed drive searches, and more.

WinHex can also open drives, allowing you to view them at the sector level.Ī built-in undelete tool helps you recover many types of deleted files. Which can be particularly useful if you suspect a program is malware and you want to find out more about it. It's just as easy to open and view the memory that belongs to a process, though.

Click File > Open, choose the file of your choice, it'll appear in a flash and you can freely browse its contents, or edit them to suit your needs. You may still use the program as a hex editor, of course. Though it now has so many add-ons that you can also use the program for data recovery, computer forensics and many other low-level applications.

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