Download XVI32 2.55

One of the most popular free hex editors running under Windows.


The name XVI32 is derived from XVI, the roman notation for the number 16.


XVI32 is one of the most popular free hex editors running under Windows.


XVI32 comes with a complete online help and requires only 975 KB of hard disk space. There is no setup program needed - just unzip the downloaded archive to your hard disk! XVI32 doesn't write any data to your registry.


XVI32 features :


- data inspector to view decoded numbers

- Built-in script interpreter.

- Easily works with huge files. Try to open a 60 MB sized text file with some other hex editor (not to speak about Wordpad), then use XVI32... If you don't have such a huge text file, use my freeware tool RndFile to create one

- XVI32 allows to edit files up to 2 GB (enough virtual memory provided, of course)

- For your convenience, XVI32 stores settings and last used search strings etc. in XVI32.INI file

- Progress indication in percent for most operations

- You can abort nearly all operations (reading/writing files, search, replace, print)

- Display of both text (ASCII/ANSI) and hexadecimal representation

- Two synchronous cursors in text and hex area

- Fully resizeable window (change number of rows and columns)

- Font and font size adjustable

- Overwrite or insert characters

- Insert text or hex string n times

- Switch byte offset (address) of first byte between 0 or 1 to examine also record structure of plain text files

- Search text or hex string, e.g. find "this text" or find "0D 0A"

- Simplified search for Unicode Latin (UTF-16) strings

- Search optionally with joker (wildcard) char that will match any character, e.g. find "A.C" or "00 2E 2E 00" where "." = "2E" (user-defined) stands for any character

- Fast searching algorithm (Quicksearch) for both search directions (down/up)

- Count occurences of text or hex string

- Replace text or hex string, e.g. replace "0D 0A" by "0A" or replace "0D 0A" by text "EOL"

- Extremely fast "replace all" mode (if needed, additional memory is allocated beforehead, not at every single replacing operation)