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
All credit goes to "Kishan Bagaria" for this nice tip...
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Kishan Bagaria
^^The REG file is made like when you click "Open With Resource Hacker" command, it will directly open the file with Resource Hacker. First you have to Remove Open with Resource Hacker Option and then again download the code because I have updated it and then you can merge it and use that command without problem. Make sure that Resource Hacker's EXE file is in this directory "C:\Program Files\Resource Hacker\ResHacker.exe". Add & Remove Open with Resource Hacker Option REG File Download Link
Kishan Bagaria
^^Sorry, the above link is broken. Please download it again from here.
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