Two alternative uses of WinHex

WinHex is a very easy to use file and disk editing software, its file size is small, fast, and the function is not lost to other hexadecimal editors, except for Hex and ASCII editing and editing, multi-file search and replacement, In addition to the functions of file comparison and analysis, WinHex has a unique use in other aspects. Today we will look at two application examples.
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1. Use WinHex to cut off the source of QQ advertising

The advertisement in QQ is very offensive, we can use the following The way to achieve the purpose of blocking QQ advertising, here to share with you.

Specific method: Run WinHex, open the QQ.exe file in the QQ installation directory, click "Find Text" under the "Search" menu, the "Find Text" window will pop up, "The following text characters will be In the searched (S): field, enter: AD\\ (as shown in Figure 1). Be careful not to select "case sensitive". Then click the "OK" button, you will find four results, replace AD\\ with other characters such as CC\\, as long as the number of characters is as much as you can.

Figure 1

After the change is completed, position the cursor to the top, click "Find Text" under the "Search" menu, or search for "AD\\", but this Go back to the "Unicode character set" in front of the "√", click the "OK" button, you will find four results, the form is: AD \\ (this is what Unicode encoding looks like), change them to as many as the number of bits Any English character can be used. After all the modifications are completed, save the modified results, delete all the *.gif and *.swf files in the AD subdirectory, and delete the ad.gif file in the dat folder, which completely cuts off the source of the QQ advertisement.

2. Repairing damaged MPEG files with WinHEX

Sometimes we will encounter this situation: MPEG files downloaded from the Internet will be "unrecognized" when opened with some MPEG playback tools. The format is "or the format is incorrect" and cannot be played. What's interesting is that the same file can be played with other playback software, but the first few seconds of the screen always have a flash, which shows that the MPEG header data is corrupted. If you can repair the damaged MPEG file header, you can use any MPEG playback software to play it. We can use WinHex to achieve this.

Specific method: first find a complete lossless MPEG file, open it with WinHex, hold down the left mouse button in the WinHex window and drag from the offset 00000000 to the offset slightly larger than the damaged MPEG file. The end of the exception part of the header, then press Ctrl+Shift+C to copy this piece of data into memory.

Next, use WinHex to open the damaged MPEG file. Also use the mouse to start from the offset of 00000000 and select the same offset as the end offset you have just selected (if the selected offset range is 00000000) -000018E0, then the range to be replaced should be from 00000000 -000018E0). Press Ctrl+V to paste the code you just copied, and replace the selected part of the damaged MPEG file with the normal MPEG header data.

Save and exit WinHex, give it a try, use MPEG playback software to play the original damaged MPEG file, no more "unrecognizable format" or "incorrect format" prompt, and you're done!