What is Hiew?
Hiew is a versatile hex editor, disk editor and memory editor software for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows operating systems. It enables users to view, edit, analyze, modify, copy, and manipulate files, disks, and memory in hexadecimal or ASCII.
Some of the key features of Hiew include:
- Supports editing files of any size with instant response time
- Provides extensive analysis capabilities for executables, object files, drivers and other binary data
- Includes several browsing and searching options to quickly navigate through data
- Allows editing disks and physical RAM for low-level debugging
- Supports several data inspection views like hexadecimal, ASCII, EBCDIC and decimal
- Features direct disk read and write for bypassing Windows disk cache
- Provides compare, bookmark and undo/redo functions for efficient editing of data
- Has a portable standalone executable with no dependencies on system DLLs
With its rich feature set and lightweight footprint, Hiew is very useful for software developers, system programmers, IT professionals, students and enthusiasts for purposes like reverse engineering firmware binaries, analyzing malware, debugging drivers, understanding file formats, patching programs, editing disks, hacking games or tweaking registries. It works well as a general hex editor and also excels in several advanced low-level computing tasks.
HxD, PE Explorer, UltraEdit, Ghex, 010 Editor, Okteta, Binary Ninja, 0xED, REDasm, PE-bear, MadEdit, Malcat, Hex Fiend, wxHexEditor are some alternatives to Hiew.