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| | 'WinHex' is a hexadecimal editor with plenty of useful features. There are three licensing modes for this product. The 'Personal' license must be used by individuals. It contains all the features described in this review. The 'Professional' license is suited for business use. This offers scripting features and an API (application programming interface) that allows you to use the advanced capabilities of WinHex programmatically. Finally, the 'Specialist' license which is the most expensive. It adds data analysis tools and extra drive recovery, which are useful for advanced users.
The program supports various character data sets including ANSI ASCII, IBM ASCII, EBCDIC, and Unicode. You can open any file that uses these character sets. A dialog appears when you open a file for the first time, asking you to choose the editing mode. Files can be open in read-only mode, which allows you to see the content only without editing it. If you want to modify the content, you should select either the "Default Edit Mode" or the "In-place Mode". In-place editing means that any modification of the content is automatically written to the file, without any prompting. After opening the file, you can press F6 to change the editing mode.
The user interface is nicely designed. The edit window appears on the middle of the user interface. You can change the font used, by accessing the program's options. At first, I was a bit overwhelmed by the multitude of options. After using the program for a couple of minutes, I got accustomed to it and everything fell into place. Although the program is very well organized, it might scare off a beginner.
Pluses: There are numerous advanced features available. I guess the fact that you can directly edit any drive connected to your computer is the most important. It's also possible to edit the contents of your RAM, by using one of the program's features. WinHex supports data conversion and includes powerful search features.
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In conclusion: This program is a complete solution for hexadecimal editing.
version reviewed: Personal 13.6
WinHex Publisher's Description WinHex is a universal hexadecimal editor, particularly helpful in the realm of computer forensics, data recovery, low-level data processing, and IT security. An 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. Features include (depending on the license type):
-Disk editor for hard disks, floppy disks, CD-ROM & DVD, ZIP, Smart Media, Compact Flash, ...
-Native support for FAT, NTFS, Ext2/3, ReiserFS, CDFS, UDF.
-Built-in interpretation of RAID systems and dynamic disks.
-Various data recovery techniques.
-RAM editor, providing access to physical RAM and other processes' virtual memory
-Data interpreter, knowing 20 data types.
-Editing data structures using templates (e.g. to repair partition table/boot sector).
-Concatenating and splitting files, unifying and dividing odd and even bytes/words.
-Analyzing and comparing files.
-Particularly flexible search and replace functions .
-Disk cloning (under DOS with X-Ways Replica).
-Drive images & backups (optionally compressed or split into 650 MB archives).
-Programming interface (API) and scripting.
-256-bit AES encryption, checksums, CRC32, hashes (MD5, SHA-1, ...)
-Erase (wipe) confidential files securely, hard drive cleansing to protect your privacy.
-Import all clipboard formats, incl. ASCII hex values.
-Convert between binary, hex ASCII, Intel Hex, and Motorola S.
-Character sets: ANSI ASCII, IBM ASCII, EBCDIC, (Unicode).
-Instant window switching. Printing. Random-number generator.
-Supports files >4 GB. Very fast. Easy to use. Extensive online help. (more) | | | |
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