Today editors are more flexible compared to those in earlier days. Among them, WinHex has a unique place because of its versatile built-in features. The list of the features available will vary depending on the version you licensed.
WinHex comes with a bundle of tools which can save your time and work. On the one hand, WinHex is not a regular editor - it can edit executable files in hex mode showing you even those non-printable characters, such as carriage returns, tabs, and some other special characters. On the other hand, you can perform data analysis from pieces of data recovered via Scandisk or Chkdisk. You can easily perform file recovery and undelete tasks by using its File Recovery utility.
Memory editing is a great bonus for gamers, who can cheat by changing some of the values in order to level up, or by boosting up the energy to be used during the game. Besides, you can check your system’s physical memory searching for malicious activity. This is truly helpful when you are performing forensic works on the system.
If you get tired of making identical disks for a standard installation, try with the Disk Cloning feature inside WinHex. With this tool, you can clone any physical media connected to your system. Furthermore, it allows you to choose which sectors you wish to clone, and compare files or full disks. Its permanent deletion utility will give you extra privacy when sharing your system. WinHex supports deconstructing RAID 0-5 with a maximum of 16 components.
Take some time to read the manuals and the tips provided by experts before using this tool - inexperienced persons may easily make a mess of their computers when using this powerful tool.
v19.2 [Mar 29, 2017]
- Files encrypted in Zip, RAR, and 7z file archives can now also be decompressed and processed.
- Support for iOS's sms.db. All recorded conversations via SMS are extracted to individual chat files.
- Metadata extraction from Quicktime video files revised. In particular, geo data is extracted from current iPhone .mov files.
- Improved support for East Asian regional code pages with variable-length character encoding for use in complex GREP expressions such as negated character sets.
- Extraction of metadata from JPEG files improved. More metadata presented for JPEG files in Details mode.
- Trailing data in JPEG files is now provided as a separate child object.
- Special support for Samsung Galaxy S6 and S7 JPEG metadata, which among others contain the creation date with a precision of 1 ms.
- Generator signatures further revised.
- File type verification further improved.
- Type group designations are now displayed along with the type description in the "Type description" column.
- A few file type designations were assigned to multiple categories previously. That was tidied up.
- Updated file mask for uncovering embedded data.
- Files can now be extracted from e-mail related MIM archives as part of e-mail processing.
- Import support for PhotoDNA hash values in hex ASCII notation in ProjectVic JSON files.
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