Reshacking Compressed Exes

When opening already compressed exes for reshacking it flags resources as corrupt and editing resources is impossible in that manner.

So i was hoping if there is another way for this type of exes to reshack.

Hope that you can help and thanks in advance.

#62638

you need to download UPX (that's the compression most of the times) and unpack those exe's. then you can reshack them like normal exe's

#62642

if you can't unpack with upx you should ask the developer of the exe for an uncompressed version.

#62649

forgive my ignorance but what is UPX??

#62653

i think it's this one, a executable compressor: http://upx.sourceforge.net/

i guess, but i don't know for sure. :lol:

#62741

Thank you all for your help and replies.

Well it seems that the file "Open-Close CD_Tray" i wanted to reshack wasn't compressed via upx.

As for the e-mailing the author for uncompressed version... i already had e-mailed him/them before posting here asking if there were any method to reshack their program and he/them gave me a negative response.

So i don't know now if i e-mailed again for such a request they might throw something heavy at me.

Any way thank you for the help and i may e-mail the author(s) again.

#63108

i did that for mediaplayer classic. it works. only problem is that u may get errors trying to recompress a reshacked exe

#63161