PE Explorer News and Updates

[Nov 06, 2010] • PE Explorer wins 2010 Epsilon Award for Software Excellence

PE Explorer was named the winner of the 2010 Epsilon Award at the 10th annual European Software Conference.

This exciting news was announced on November 6th, 2010 at the European Software Conference in Vienna, Austria. Each year, the Epsilon Award recognizes the best software application from the European software and MicroISV community. Programs are nominated by software developers, a peer-review process that ensures that only the highest quality software is considered for the award.

[Oct 14, 2009] • PE Explorer v1.99 Revision 6

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General:

PE Explorer is now Windows 7 Ready.
Now PE Explorer reports an error when trying to open 64-bit files. Support for
64-bit files will only be available in version 2.
.MUI (Multilingual User Interface) file extension added to the Open File type list.
Minor tweaks and improvements.

Disassembler:

Added the options to mark blocks as Byte, Word, DWORD, QWORD and GUID.

Resource editor:

Added the options to create the Windows 7 Compatibility and DPI-Aware sections
in the Manifest Wizard.
Bugfix: Windows Vista was occasionally unable to recognize the resources in files
manifested by PE Explorer.
Bugfix: The conflict with third-party applications on Windows XP SP3.
Minor tweaks.

UPX Unpacker plug-in:

Minor update.

PE Explorer: Complete History of Previous Changes

[Oct 28, 2008] • PE Explorer v1.99 Revision 5

General:

Bugfix: Fixed UI errors under Windows Vista.
Bugfix: Fixed occasional deadlock when quiting PE Explorer.
Minor tweaks and improvements.

Headers Info Viewer:

Added the Characteristics Editor to view or set flag bits in the Characteristics field.

Relocation Viewer:

Bugfix: Relocations would not be displayed in files which had sections
following the Relocation section.

Resource editor:

Added the option to specify the processor architecture in the Manifest Wizard.
Bugfix: Fixed an error that occurred when the last item of a menu to be edited
was a separator.

[July 28, 2008] • PE Explorer v1.99 Revision 4

General:

Added the option to save the Headers Info, Data Directories and Section Headers View to a text file.
Improved opening of huge files (of 1 Gb or larger).
Bugfix: PE Explorer reported negative values for the total physical memory under Vista Service Pack 1.
Minor tweaks.

Resource editor:

Bugfix: Fixed an error that occasionally occurred when editing menus.

[Jun 05, 2008] • PE Explorer v1.99 Revision 3

General:

Added the Reload Last Opened File button.
Minor tweaks and improvements.

Section Headers Editor:

Added the Delete/Undelete Section buttons.
Bugfix: Sections could not be deleted.

Resource editor:

Bugfix: Fixed an error that caused PE Explorer to unexpectedly shut down when saving multiple resources at once.

UPX Unpacker plug-in:

Now supports for UPX v3.03.
Minor improvements.

[Aug 19, 2007] • PE Explorer v1.99 Revision 2

General:

Added the NsPack Unpacker plug-in.
Bugfix: PE Explorer would occasionally raise an exception on startup if the logfile was corrupted.
Other minor bugfixes and improvements.

Resource editor:

Bugfix: when displaying multilingual StringTables the string indices would be displayed incorrectly.

UPX Unpacker plug-in:

Now supports for UPX v3.01.
Now supports for LZMA compression method.
Now supports for scrambled files originally compressed by UPX v3.01.

[May 02, 2007] • PE Explorer v1.99

Version 1.99 delivers new features and enhancements, including a digital signature viewer and the ability to mark pre-Vista applications with a requested execution level.

General:

Added the Digital Signature Viewer.
Now prompts to remove missing files from the Recent File list.
Minor tweaks and improvements.

Section Headers Editor:

Now supports creating a resource section in files that don't contain a resource table.
Bugfix: Fixed errors that occurred when saving files with the first section of zero length.

Resource editor:

Manifest Wizard now supports adding a trust info section to mark a pre-Vista application with a requested execution level.
Now supports replacing large (256x256) Vista icons stored as .ICO with an icon from a PNG file.
Bugfix: The newly created manifest resource could not be deleted.

[Nov 15, 2006] • PE Explorer v1.98 Revision 5

General:

Now PE Explorer is Vista Ready. Fixed issues with the Vista Thumbnail Preview and Flip 3D features.
Other minor bugfixes and improvements.

Resource editor:

Bugfix: The search dialog didn't get minimized when minimizing PE Explorer.
Bugfix: The dialog preview window stayed on top when switching to another application.
Bugfix: Visual Studio gave an incorrect format error on some dialogs in files saved out of PE Explorer.

[Sept 01, 2006] • PE Explorer v1.98 Revision 4

General:

Added the WinUpack/Upack Unpacker plug-in.
Improved detection of files with non-standard PE headers.
Bugfix: PE Explorer occasionally hangs on startup on some systems (the splash screen is displayed and then hangs in there).

Disassembler:

Added the options to save and load the disassembly listing and all the changes made to continue on later.
Added the shortcut key to switch between the Disassembler and the main PE Explorer window.
Bugfix: Displaying addresses in the View tabs didn't work.
Other minor bugfixes.

Export Viewer:

Added the button to jump to a selected address in the Disassembler.

[July 07, 2006] • PE Explorer v1.98 Revision 3

What's revised and amended:

Disassembler:

Bugfix: Attempting to disassemble a file with broken imports/ relocations causes an error.
Other minor bugfixes.

UPX Unpacker plug-in:

Now supports for files modified with many UPX scramblers such as Advanced UPX Scrambler, UPoLyX, UPX Lock, UPX Mutanter, UPX Scrambler, and a dozen more.

[Dec 01, 2005] • PE Explorer v1.98 Updated

What's new:

Resource editor:
• Now supports viewing and replacing large (256x256) PNG compressed Vista icons.

View and replace Vista icons stored as PNGs

UPX Unpacker plug-in:
• Now supports for files packed with the obsolete early versions of UPX (prior to 0.80).
• Now attempts to recover a file, even when an original PE file header entry is no longer available after unpacking.

Data Directories Viewer:
• Added the Set to Zero button to make removing a pointer easier.

Disassembler:
• Bugfix: Fixed an error that occasionally occurred when searching for an offset to fields in the VCL objects.
• Other minor improvements.

[Apr 25, 2005] • PE Explorer v1.97 Updated

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General:
• Added the Favorite Files menu item to display a list of favorite files for easy access.

Disassembler:
• Bugfix: The search command didn't start at the current line of the code when reversing the direction of the search.

Resource editor:
• Now supports editing Dialog Data (string values only).

• Now supports viewing and editing Bitmaps contained in binary streams (previously PE Explorer failed to find the needed resources in programs written in Borland Delphi & C++ Builder).

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