Use Notepad++ As HEX Editor with Plugin Download (Free WinHEX Alternative)

Notepad++ is a powerful source code and text editor for Windows operating system, which can be used as complete default Notepad replacement alternative. One of the major features of Notepad++ is robust support for macros and plugins, which allowing capability of Notepad++ to be extended without major change to the main program itself. One of the plugin is HEX Editor, which allows Notepad++ to view any files in HEX (hexadecimal) format.

HEX-Editor plug-in for Notepad++ allows user to view a file in HEX format, and compare documents in HEX format. Using native function of Notepad++, the HEX files can be edited, modified and saved too. The HEX Editor for Notepad++ also can switch its view to binary, and support start layout in 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit and 64-bit.

Notepad++ HEX Editor

The current of HEX-Editor plugin for Notepad++ (0.9.4), part of Notepad++ (npp) plugins, can be downloaded from sourceforge.net .

To install the HEX Editor plugin, just extract the HexEditor.dll file from the downloaded ZIP file, and copy it to Notepad++\plugins folder, i.e. C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins or C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins.

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3 Responses to “Use Notepad++ As HEX Editor with Plugin Download (Free WinHEX Alternative)”

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    September 23rd, 2009 12:36
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    [...] Run sp42568.exe. Installation will halt when it detects non-HP machine. However, the setup installation files will be extracted to C:SWSETUPsp42568 folder. Inside the folder, open Define.ini file in a HEX editor such as Notepad++ with HEX Editor plugin. [...]

  2. James Climer
    August 18th, 2009 22:09
    2

    Thanks for the article. I was in desperate need of a hex editor and was convinced that since np++ did so many other things, surely it could be used as a hex editor as well.

    Super helpful!!!

  3. John
    July 30th, 2009 17:51
    1

    HxD is a free hex editor also, highly recommended. http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/

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