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Binary Viewer is a free windows utility allowing you to open and view any file located on your computer regardless of format file was saved.

Binary Viewer displays file contents in hexadecimal, octal, decimal and text formats (multiple Encodings), therefore letting you to peek into binary files, usually not viewable when using standard Windows viewer/editors like Notepad.

New verison 2.2.12.117 was released Jan 13, 2012.

Main features of Binary Viewer program are:

Multiple formats for displaying binary data:
- Hexadecimal
- Binary
- Octal
- Decimal (1 o 2 bytes)
- Text (ASCII)
- Text (Unicode and Big Endian Unicode)
Handling extremally large file sizes (up to 16TB )
Ability to open and view entire Physical Drives
Ability to bookmark ranges within open file/device
Supports Alternate Data Stream (ADS) displaying
Simple and intuitive user interface
Two-column display for easy viewing same content in multiple formats
Provides flexible search functionality (search for binary sequence or search for text within file)
Allows selecting, copy and saving to the file
Shows extended file properties on main window panel
Has very small memory footprint (¹)
Is absolutely free (²)

(¹)Thanks to using memory mapped files, only small portion of viewed file is residing in RAM.
(²)NO ADWARE, NO SPYWARE, no hidden "features".

Here it is. Binary Viewer showing one open file (in hexadecimal and text (ASCII) formats):

5 Most likely you will use it to:

Analyze internal format of binary files
Reverse engineering of programs and files saved in proprietary file
Check content of files not viewable by other means
Compare/check differences between binary files
Viewing file Alternate Data Streams
Viewing file Extended properties

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