The Best 36 PE Explorer Alternatives

  • Resource Hacker icon

    Resource Hacker

    Resource Hacker has been designed to be the complete resource editing tool: compiling, viewing, decompiling and recompiling resources for both 32bit and 64bit Windows executables.

    Free Windows

  • HxD

    HxD is a carefully designed and fast hex editor which, additionally to raw disk editing and modifying of main memory (RAM), handles files of any size.

    Free Windows

  • Free Resource Extractor

    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 Windows

  • 010 Editor

    010 Editor is a professional text/hex editor designed to edit any file, drive, or process on your machine. Using Binary Templates technology, 010 Editor allows a binary file to be parsed into a data structure that can be understood.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • ResEdit

    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.

    Free Windows

  • Anolis Resourcer

    Flexible and extensible resource editor for Win32/PE applications under active development. Is "MUI Aware" and supports all the changes made to the resource...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Free Hex Editor

    Free hex editor (Frhed) is an binary file editor for Windows. It is small but has many advanced features like ability to load big files partially.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Hex Workshop

    The Hex Workshop Hex Editor by BreakPoint Software is a complete set of hexadecimal development tools for Microsoft Windows 2000 and later.

    Commercial Windows

  • XN Resource Editor

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

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Restorator

    Restorator is an award-winning utility to edit windows resources in applications and their components, e.g. files with .exe, .dll, .res, .rc, .dcr, extension (see PE...

    Commercial Windows

  • Resource Tuner

    Resource Tuner lets you view, extract, replace, edit, and delete the embedded resources of executable files: icons, strings, images, sounds, dialogs, menus - all that...

    Commercial Windows

  • HT editor

    HT is a file editor/viewer/analyzer for executables. The goal is to combine the low-level functionality of a debugger and the usability of IDEs. We plan to implement all (hex-)editing features and support of the most important file formats.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD FreeBSD

  • ResourcesExtract

    ResourcesExtract is a small utility that scans dll/ocx/exe files and extract all resources (bitmaps, icons, cursors, AVI movies, HTML files, and more...) stored in them...

    Free Windows

  • PilotEdit Lite

    PilotEdit Lite is an advanced text and hex editor that supports opening of files larger than 4GB. It offers customizable syntax and keyword highlighting, advanced search...

    Free Windows

  • PEBrowse64 Professional

    PEBrowse64 Professional is a static-analysis tool and disassembler for Win64 executables and Microsoft .NET assemblies produced according to the Portable Executable...

    Free Personal Windows