Over the years, I've used a variety of hex editors. In recent years, I've been lazy and just used the binary editor built into Visual Studio. But I recently discovered
HxD, a free hex editor that I've really enjoyed working with. It loads and runs as fast as notepad, has a nice tabbed UI for working on multiple documents, and supports a ton of really nice features; among them:
- search by text string, hex, int, or float value
- search & replace
- insert mode
- disk editor
- RAM editor (view/edit the memory of a running process)
- nice printing support
- view bytes as groups of 1, 4, 8, or 16 bytes
So if you're ever in the market for a free, fast, nicely done hex editor, be sure to check out
HxD. It's been a nice little addition to my toolbox.
Posted
Apr 04 2007, 07:19 PM
by
mike-woodring