i need some help here please

rovingcowboy · Post by **rovingcowboy** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 9:31 pm

need to open a program exe,
change something in it.
make it save it as the same exe with my adjustments.

how and what do i use to do that.

the program's author is not able to be found online anywhere.
his email inbox is overflowing and all email is being returned to sender.

the company name is not found anyplace online or in the phone books either.

not sure if they left the web or died?

but the program does not do or allow me to do a simple thing so i have need to reedit the program.

i was told to use a hex editor what ever that is? i am not a programer i thought i had a hex editor but it turns out to be a file viewer and not an editor.

so is there any freeware programs out there that can do what is needed.?

thanks.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 12:33 am

The best way I can think of is to get the source code, program the feature in, and then recompile. Of course, you may not be able to get the source code, and you may not know the programming language. I could be wrong, but I just don’t see hex editors being helpful in this situation.

Maybe there is an alternative with the feature you desire.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 1:31 pm

Yeah you'd basically need to know machine code to do it with an hex editor only, and if you're going to try and learn that, learn assembly instead, much easier.

I'd do what tak said, try to get the source code and program the feature in, that's assuming it's open source (or that it "leaked") and that you know the language.

I've also heard of tools called decopilers but never used one, but this would turn the exe into the source code. But I'm not sure if it turns it into say, C++,I think it turns it more to a low level language like assembly.

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rovingcowboy · Post by **rovingcowboy** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 5:52 pm

i neither know the program language and since i cant get any email address for the author and or the company site which is gone.

i dont think i can get the source code.

so i need to get a program that will let me edit the one line or two i need to and then save it back in to the orgianl exe.

looks like it is going to be harder then i thought. seems like i have to do this again

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