Resource Hacker 3.4 is a minimal freeware tool that lets you view, modify, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executable’s. Resource Hacker comes with an inbuilt resource script compiler and debugger and works on all 32-bit editions of the Windows operating system.
Resource Hacker lets you view resources such as Cursor, Icon, Bitmap, GIF, AVI, and JPG. WAV and MIDI audio resources can be played. Menus, Dialogs, MessageTables, StringTables, Accelerators, Delphi Forms, and VersionInfo resources can be viewed as decompiled resource scripts. Menus and Dialogs can also be viewed as they would appear in a running application.
After viewing the resources, if you want to save them, then they can be saved as image files (*.ico, *.bmp etc), as script files (*.rc), as binary resource files (*.res), or as untyped binary files (*.bin).
Modifying Resources is also possible with Resource Hacker 3.4 . Resources can be modified by replacing the resource with a resource located in another file (*.ico, *.bmp, *.res etc) or by using the internal resource script compiler (for menus, dialogs etc). Dialog controls can also be visually moved and/or resized by clicking and dragging the respective dialog controls prior to recompiling with the internal compiler. Resources can be added to an application by copying them from external resource files (*.res).
If you’re uncomfortable with a files size Resource Hacker can reduce it for you by removing unused resources.
The newer version of Resource Hacker has added support for the following Dialog extended style flags: WS_EX_LAYERED, WS_EX_NOINHERITLAYOUT, WS_EX_LAYOUTRTL and WS_EX_NOACTIVATE. All resource language ids (except those for cursors and icons) can now be easily changed. 32bit Resource Files (*.res) can now also be viewed and edited. LBS_NOINTEGRALHEIGHT and LBS_MULTICOLUMN listbox style flags in dialogs previously could not be combined, but this bug has been fixed and now you can do that too.