Helium Hex Editor
Portable, lightweight, and advanced hexadecimal editor.
Description
Imagine a tool that works like a kind of "Swiss Army knife" for exploring and manipulating data at its most raw level: bytes. Helium Hex Editor is exactly that, but with a touch of sophistication. Lightweight and portable, it doesn't require complicated installation, allowing you to dive into files, process memories, disks, and even obscure kernel spaces — whether in physical or virtual environments. It doesn't matter if you are dealing with a simple text file, an entire hard drive or formats like S-Records and Intel Hex; it is ready to disassemble everything into hexadecimal.
In addition to basic editing operations (like copy, paste, or undo), it offers multiple views of the same document, as if you had several lenses to examine different layers of data simultaneously. Want to compare binaries? There's a tool for that. Need to hunt specific strings or replace patterns? It does so accurately. For the curious, features like entropy display (measuring the "randomness" of bytes) or byte distribution add analytical layers, almost like a medical diagnosis for data. And if you work with code, the integrated disassembler and support for data structures (including endianness) are valuable allies.
But Helium doesn't stop there. It has a specialized side for those dealing with Windows executables. The PE (Portable Executable) viewer reveals headers, import/export tables, and embedded resources, as if it were an X-ray for programs. Want to compare the headers of two .exe files? Or decode unwind opcodes? It resolves that. And for forensic analysis or reverse engineering situations, tools like resource extraction or address conversion between sections simplify the heavy lifting. All of this in a package that fits in your pocket — literally, on a USB drive — ready to be used on any machine, without leaving traces.
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Technical Specifications
Version: 2.7.3
Size: 12.41 MB
License: Free
Language: English
Platform: Windows
File Type: ZIP
SHA-256: a14ffa4022198fb99b34f8a953d439214a64b77412f1898db155e0516ed89d02
Developer: Jacquelin Potier
Category: System/Files and Disks
Updated: 02/26/2025Related
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