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Resource Tuner lets you open Windows executable files such as. EXE. DLL, Device Drivers (. SYS OCX Controls, and several others. Once inside, you can change the look of the icons, cursors, dialogs, buttons, sounds, animations and other elements of the Windows user interface by editing and replacing resources in the executable files. For more serious changes (though this may not do you any good unless you have a good understanding of programming functions check out PE Explorer. For viewing and editing the raw binary data contents of the DLL file, use Hex Editor. Most people asking how to open/edit. EXE or. DLL files are actually not really aware of what they are trying to deal with. EXE and DLL files are not plain, traditional text files that you can easily read and edit. You cannot simply open up an. EXE like a document file and start editing or reading the contents. Sometimes the only meaningful information inside DLL files is some Vendor information (copyrights, trademarks, origins) and Product Version information. These binary files have a complex nested structure defined by the Portable Executable format, and they are not intended to be editable by users, neither are DLLs meant to be opened separately from the programs they belong to. However, if you do want to change something in an EXE or DLL file for whatever reason, you may be able to do this by changing their resources with Resource Tuner. But still you will not be able to modify the actual code in any way: resources are separated from the program code. This way, you can make significant changes to the interface of the program while leaving the code untouched. You may also be able to translate the program interface into another language. Open EXE/ DLL File with Resource Tuner Resource Tuner contains a number of methods for opening files. To open a file for browsing or editing resources, click the.
*.dll files are archive files open with winzip/7zip etc. That isnt to say that all.dll files are archives you can save anything with the.dll extension however most windows.dll files are generated to be archives examples of this are windows>twain_32.dll which is an archive file however twain.dll is not if you look at twain.dll you will see an MZŽ as the first three notepad characters which denotes a Compiled C file/program or part of a program. Whereas MZ seems to be an archive. Also most.exe files are archives mostly containing an icon image etc for the file and the windows installer packages as well they contain all the information the program needs to run images,movies etc and also directories including installation information and plain text file. I have a game here game.exe and it contains java class files an image a pointer directing the.exe to run a.bat file. Obviously your.bat file will run a javac call from the archive and run the game there is also a few.dll archives containing java class files also. [autorun] ICON= AUTORUN\ MINCRAFTLOGO. ICO standard icon redirect here.ico is an image file within a.dll file within a.exe file. So the image seen on the.exe file is the minecraft logo. This is in a file called autorun.inf. Second example [discstarter] startpage= Autostart\ Disk1.html uselanguagestartpage=1 windowcaption= Solid Edge licensee= Siemens PLM Software productguid=05 B227 DF- DB00-4934- B3 C8-40 B7 D8 FAA54 A singleinstance=1 hidesplashscreen=1 noscrollbars=0 showstatusbar=1 splashscreentime=0 windowwidth=750 windowheight=775 buttondir= Autostart toolbarcolor=16777215 toolbar=goback,goforward,gohome,print,exit [autorun] open=autostart.exe icon= Autostart\ ENGINE. ICO This is the solid edge autorun.inf file contained in solidedge.exe Autostart\ is the Autostart.dll directory. open=autostart.exe specifies the autostart.exe file to run from within the original.