Add “Open with Resource Hacker” Option in EXE, DLL, CPL, OCX and SCR Files Context Menu

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NOTE: Make sure Resource Hacker's EXE file is stored in "Resource Hacker" directory under "Program Files" folder in C: drive, otherwise this trick will not work. Or you can edit the .REG file in Notepad and change the path of EXE file.

If you are a regular visitor of this site, then you might be aware of various Resource Hacker tutorials which we post time to time. Resource Hacker is a tool to edit Windows files to change look-n-feel of Windows interface.

You can check our "All About Resource Hacker" tutorial to know better about this tool.

You can edit EXE, DLL, CPL and many other system files with this tool. If you use it frequently, then here is an interesting tip for you.

Today one of our visitor "Kishan Bagaria" posted a very interesting trick which can add "Open with Resource Hacker" option in EXE, DLL, CPL, OCX and SCR files context menu.

In other words, you just need to merge a small registry file and whenever you'll right-click on any above mentioned files, you'll get an extra option "Open with Resource Hacker" in the list:

Just download following ZIP file, extract it and run the extracted REG file. It'll ask for confirmation, accept it:

Add Open with Resource Hacker Option

That's it. Now you'll get the option in EXE, DLL, CPL, OCX and SCR files context menu.

If you want to remove the option in future, then you can use following file in same way:

Remove Open with Resource Hacker Option

Thanks to our reader "Kishan Bagaria" for this nice tip...

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Tangmeister

The issue is that it doesn't actually open the file I request.

Just a blank Resource Hacker box, and I've already placed them in the "Resourse" Hacker folder, too!
balaji

javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0

this turned on the underlining of web links though!

thanx.
Someone

@Tangmeister
What kind of operating system do you use?

x86 or x64?

Resource Hacker CANNOT open resources on a x64 PC
SifJar

There appears to be a typo in the .reg file. It puts the ResHacker directory as Resourse Hacker instead of Resource Hacker.
Crans

patch the 3 ux theme dll's with the patcher. make .iso disc of your current OS get new 3rd party theme dll's add .new or whatever you want place them in your system 32 and reboot on your .iso disc hit repair wait for add driver to appear go into your computer and you should have full access to rename original dll's to .backup (just add .backup) and delete .new off of new .dll's reboot. If the new ones are incompatable just redo the process to restore your original .dll's..... :)
Eric

Thank you for this nice little tweak. I had already added Resource Hacker to be default opening program for .dll files, but was having trouble with this specific edit option.