nOOb here. how can i open a .exe file too see whats inside?

[lotust]

Is there a freeware app that can let me look inside/edit a .exe file?


thanks

 

[notfred]

Any hex editor.

There's not a whole lot in there that you're going to be able to do anything with, though.

 

[lotust]

haha your right I used a hex editor and I saw stuff i knew nothing about :-( I guess i need some C++

 

[Pauli]

There's really nothing that anyone can "see" in an .EXE file. What were you expecting to find?

 

[lotust]

in say a wintv32.exe from www.hauppauge.com when i open the application. There is a skin to it. I wanted to make a new skin.

 

[Nothinman]

haha your right I used a hex editor and I saw stuff i knew nothing about :-( I guess i need some C++

That won't help either, all that's in an exe is compiled code that the OS (to an extent) and CPU understand. Once the C or C++ code is assembled into assembly (human readable CPU instructions) it's irrelevant that it was ever done in C or C++.

in say a wintv32.exe from www.hauppauge.com when i open the application. There is a skin to it. I wanted to make a new skin.

You may be able to open the exe with a resource editor and save the bitmaps they used in the skin (depending on how they did it) but most likely saving them back to the exe would corrupt it or atleast cause it to to crash.