Best .EXE editor?

[Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman]

The title says everything. So what is the best .EXE (or binary file) editor out there? (freeware is preferred)

[Destructionator XV]

What is your goal in editing binary files? It is often a non-trivial task, especially executables.



But to answer the question, I use bvi on Linux, and another decent one is khexedit, again on linux.

For more, the wikipedia page has some links that might be worth looking at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_hex_editors

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And a direct link to one that looks promising for Windows:
http://hexplorer.sourceforge.net/

[Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman]

What is your goal in editing binary files? It is often a non-trivial task, especially executables.



But to answer the question, I use bvi on Linux, and another decent one is khexedit, again on linux.

For more, the wikipedia page has some links that might be worth looking at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_hex_editors

edit:
And a direct link to one that looks promising for Windows:
http://hexplorer.sourceforge.net/

Thanks. Actually I'm looking for something like Resource Hacker; something that can display and edit the content of .EXE files in "organized" view. Resource Hacker can do it on *.exe, *.dll, *.ocx and such, but it fails on some .exe files.

How about decompiler? What's the best decompiler around?

[Destructionator XV]

Thanks. Actually I'm looking for something like Resource Hacker; something that can display and edit the content of .EXE files in "organized" view.

Hmm, I know nothing about tools to do that.

How about decompiler? What's the best decompiler around?

I've never used a decompiler. There are a few obstacles to it:
1) for most propritary software, use of a decompiler on it is expressly forbidden in the EULA

2) for open source software, you have the source on hand anyway, so it kinda defeats the purpose

3) They don't really work that well, I've heard. But again, I've never used one myself.

So I don't really know.

[Ace Pace]

I've heard good things about Soft Ice debugger, which can be used for reading running .exes.