WinHex is in its core a universal hexadecimal editor, particularly helpful in the realm of computer forensics, data recovery, low-level data processing, and IT security. An advanced tool for everyday and emergency use: inspect and edit all kinds of files, recover deleted files or lost data from hard drives with corrupt file systems or from digital camera cards. Features depend on the license type (license type comparison).

+ Disk editor for hard disks, floppy disks, CD-ROM & DVD, ZIP, Smart Media, Compact Flash, ...
+ Native support for FAT12/16/32, exFAT, NTFS, Ext2/3/4, Next3, CDFS, UDF
+ Built-in interpretation of RAID systems and dynamic disks
+ Various data recovery techniques
+ RAM editor, providing access to physical RAM and other processes' virtual memory
+ Data interpreter, knowing 20 data types
+ Editing data structures using templates (e.g. to repair partition table/boot sector)
+ Concatenating and splitting files, unifying and dividing odd and even bytes/words
+ Analyzing and comparing files
+ Particularly flexible search and replace functions
+ Disk cloning (under DOS with X-Ways Replica)
+ Drive images & backups (optionally compressed or split into 650 MB archives)
+ Programming interface (API) and scripting
+ 256-bit AES encryption, checksums, CRC32, hashes (MD5, SHA-1, ...)
+ Erase (wipe) confidential files securely, hard drive cleansing to protect your privacy
+ Import all clipboard formats, incl. ASCII hex values
+ Convert between binary, hex ASCII, Intel Hex, and Motorola S
+ Character sets: ANSI ASCII, IBM ASCII, EBCDIC, (Unicode)
+ Instant window switching. Printing. Random-number generator.

Additional changes:
* User manual and program help were updated for v18.4.
* Search in the registry viewer: Improved display of hits in the data of values.
* A rare exception error was fixed that could occur when extracting metadata from corrupt DBX e-mail archives.
* A rare exception error was fixed that could occur when carving individual e-mail messages (.eml files).
* A rare exception error was fixed that could occur when carving .dxf files.
* Fixed sender and recipients filter for processed original .eml and other single-mail files. These filters did not work in v18.2 and v18.3.
* Some inconsistencies within the inclusion of previously existing files and directories into snapshots of Ext3/Ext4 volumes in v18.3 were fixed.

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