Moreover, at roughly 1.6 MB, this Hex editing tool is also tiny. This freeware is also made available as a portable application. That is, it can be used to raw edit things like the (MBR) Master Boot Record, its partition table and boot sectors. This is likely because you could use this tool to modify the filesystem of a USB flash drive. This is a restriction is not in control of the tool but rather is a limitation set in place by Microsoft Windows. Note: To use the Disk Editor function, you will need administrative privileges. You can use Ctrl + Left and Ctrl + Right to navigate nibbles. Some key features include a search and replace function, export, file comparison, byte grouping, bookmarks, file shredding, splitting of files, concatenation, and statistics. Hex editing with this tool is task oriented and structured to work much like a regular text file editor. Quickly and easily edit the contents of raw files, drive information, or data stored in memory that is in use by a running process. It offers an easy to use interface and ships with the most essential file editing features. A freeware hex reader tool that has been considered by many to be one of the best for raw disk editing and modifying of (main Memory) RAM. I am disappointed to see John Haller, who otherwise has a reputation for high-quality reliable software, promoting this fundamentally flawed program.HxD is a Portable Hex Editor, disk editor, memory editor, and file viewer. Goodbye to Notepad++ I never want to touch it again.īy the way, Notepad++ Portable has the the same major bug. Well, it's too much user effort for me to tolerate this horribly defective program.

And what reason does he give for not fixing it? He says it's too much 'coding effort'. Scroll to the 'Followups' section at the bottom of that formal bug-report page, and you will witness Don Ho blatantly refusing to fix this major bug. Here is a link to a bug report about it (on an official Notepad++ web site): There is a work-around for this bug, but the work-around is a time-consuming hassle that you must remember to do (and probably won't remember to do) every time you save a new document. So, for example, if you create a new plain-text document, it is saved without the '.txt' extension, and therefore it is saved by Windows as an unknown file type, which Windows will not know how to handle when you try to open it. The bug causes the following problem: when saving a new document, your new document is saved without any extension.

I absolutely vote thumbs-down on Notepad++ because it has a major bug that the program's author, Don Ho, refuses to fix.

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