HexBrowser

HexBrowser - The quick way to identify files

About

HexBrowser is freeware. Latest version is 1.5.71 (oct. 2007)
Made for fun by Peter Fiskerstrand using Visual C++ and MFC.
HexBrowser works on Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 and 7.

HexBrowser is now available as a .NET 2.0-application.

Report bugs or contact us: info@hexbrowser.com

Download

Use one of these links to download hexbrowser.rar, 92 kb:
Mirror 1 (down)
Mirror 2 (v1.5.71)
Mirror 3 (v1.5.71)
You need mfc71.dll and msvcr71.dll in your system32-folder to use HexBrowser.

New! - HexBrowser.NET (v0.62 beta)
Requires .NET 2.0

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Description

HexBrowser is a tool that identifies file types. It does not care about the file extension, but opens each file to look for signatures so it can determine the exact type of a file. It now recognizes more than 650 different file formats.

HexBrowser shows detailed information about each file, or a hex- or text dump of the beginning of each file (for the sake of speed).
Here are some of the file formats that it recognizes:

Audio real, wav, mp3, decaudio, adlib, sunraster, adif, midi, avr, au, vqf, alp, esps

Video real, asf/wmv, mpg, mov, 3gp, mp4, mjpeg, dv, flac, nsv, mng, swf, mtv, fli, flc

Graphics jpg, jpeg2000, bmp, gif, wmf, tiff, openexr, mdi, kdf, viff, psd, mrsid, cmf, png, jng,
wpg, psp, iff, emf, eps, ps, pcx, pic

Office MSOffice, OpenOffice, PocketWord, StarOffice, Write, txt, rtf, html, pdf, chm, pst, xml

Archives zip, rar, lha, larc, installshield, c64, sbx, daa, cab, tzf, jar, sit,
gzip, ghost, zoo, hyp, ima, arj, 7-zip, z, lzx, hqx, deb, rpm

Other mac/linux/unix/dos/windows executables, database files, +++

HexBrowser also shows extended information about the following file types:
exe, pe, ole/doc/xls, ttf, jpg/exif, lnk, mov/qt/3gp/mp4, zip, wav, rmf, asf

HexBrowser can be started with a file or directory path as parameter.
Files can also be dragged and dropped onto the HexBrowser window.
Other ways to view a file: Use File > Open, or simply browse to the file.