
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. Extensive online help.WinHex is, at heart, a hex editor.
Character sets: ANSI ASCII, IBM ASCII, EBCDIC, (Unicode). Convert between binary, hex ASCII, Intel Hex, and Motorola S. Erase (wipe) confidential files securely, hard drive cleansing to protect your privacy. 128-bit encryption, checksums, CRC32, hashes (MD5, SHA-1. Programming interface (API) and scripting (professional & specialist licenses only). Drive images & backups (optionally compressed or split into 650 MB archives). Disk cloning, with a specialist license also under DOS. Particularly flexible search and replace functions. Concatenating and splitting files, unifying and dividing odd and even bytes/words. Editing data structures using templates (e.g. Data interpreter, knowing 20 data types. RAM editor, providing access to other processes' virtual memory. Powerful directory browser for FAT, NTFS, Ext2/3, ReiserFS, CDFS, UDF. Disk editor for hard disks, floppy disks, CD-ROM & DVD, ZIP, Smart Media, Compact Flash. WinHex is a universal hexadecimal editor, particularly helpful in the realm of computer forensics, data recovery, low-level data processing, and IT security.Īn advanced tool for everyday and emergency use: inspect and edit all kinds of files, recover deleted files or lost data from hard drives with corrupt file systems or from digital camera cards.