HxD:最好的免费Hex Editor
- “我所发现的最好的免费hex editor是Hxd,它甚至比多数shareware的hex editor还要好: http://mh-nexus.de/programs.htm ”。
- “xvi32跟hxd相比,相差甚远,界面、性能诸多方面。以打开一个300MB文件来说,hxd需要0.5秒,xvi32需要10秒以上。”
到主页一看,看起来不错。尤其是开始一句“HxD is a carefully designed and fast hex editor…… ”

软件功能
- Instant opening regardless of file-size (>4GB is no problem: opening, editing are very fast)
- Fast searching: forward, backwards or from beginning
- Replace function (fast even for millions of edits)
- Search and replace support Unicode, Ansi-text and Hex-values
- Disk-Editor: RAW reading and writing of disks and drives (hard disks, floppy disks, USB-disks, CD-ROM, ...) for Win9x, WinNT and higher
- RAM-Editor: can read and write virtual memory of other processes
- Data-folding for better overview in RAM-Editor
- Exporting of data to source code (Pascal, C, Java) or as formatted output (plain text, HTML, Richtext, TeX) or to hex formats:
Motorola S19 Records, Motorola S28 Records, Motorola S37 Records, 16 Bit Intel Hex, 20 Bit Intel Hex, 32 Bit Intel Hex
- Checksum-Generator: Checksum-8, Checksum-16, Checksum-24, Checksum-32, CRC-16, CRC-16 CCITT, CRC-32, Custom CRC, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, MD-2, MD-4, MD5
- Insertion of byte patterns
- File shredder for safe file deletion
- Splitting or concatenating of files
- File compare (simple)
- Statistical view: Graphical representation of the character distribution. Helps to identify the data-type of a selection.
- Support for ANSI, DOS/IBM-ASCII, EBCDIC and Macintosh charsets
- Byte grouping (1, 2, 4, 8 or 16 bytes packed together in one column)
- Hex only or text only mode
- Progress-window displays on long time operations (shows remaining time and has a cancel-button)
- Unlimited undo
- Modified data is highlighted
- Internet update checker
- Easy to use interface with modern icons
- Ghost caret: displayed around the corresponding character/hex value on the inactive column, the caret is placed on the active column
- Goto address
- Printing
- Overwrite or Insert Mode
- Cut, Copy, Paste Insert, Paste Write
- Clipboard support for other hex editors (Visual Studio/Visual C++, WinHex, HexWorkshop, ...)
- Bookmarks: Ctrl+Shift+Number(0-9) sets a bookmark, Ctrl+Number(0-9) goes to a bookmark
- Navigating to nibbles with Ctrl+Left or Ctrl+Right
- Flicker free display and fast drawing