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Last Update: Fri, 07/17/2009 - 16:39 — abhishek
 
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Introduction
When dealing with unknown .exe, .dll or other binary files, it's often helpful to view any text information contained in the file. This may help you to identify the program itself, as well as other information, such as the copyright date, application used to create the file, menu items and error messages.
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Peek is a tiny utility that allows you to do this by creating a right-click context menu item. Usage can't be simpler: Just right-click a binary file and select "Peek." The program can handle Unicode strings and can provide text string offsets. A little gem.
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Peek    Rating 8 of 10  Gizmo's Top Pick
Pros   Extremely small size
Cons   Program not being developed at present. Most versions of Windows are not officially supported
Developer Home Page   http://members.ping.at/mlubich/
Download link   http://members.ping.at/mlubich/peek11.zip
File Size   11.2 KB   Version 1.1   License Type Unrestricted Freeware   Installation Requirements Windows 95, NT4 officially supported. May work with other versions of Windows
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#1Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/21/2008 - 14:05.

Ok but aggravating, I like text TextExtract. I believe it is better and less aggravating where as if you try to open up a file in the menu shell it opens in that crumby Peek in notepad. And if you try to do multiples files of anything in the shell menu it will open up with peek notepad. so if you try to do multiple jobs in the shell menu then Peek opens everything up in notepad. So so aggravating

Try this one it is better. As in less Aggravating

http://www.nonags.com/alert/?TextExtract

#2Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 10/04/2008 - 10:31.

The download link given at NoNags.com to the author's website is broken
    www.ultima-thule.co.uk/downloads/textextract.zip
No link or mention of software is to be found searching the author's site
    www.ultima-thule.co.uk

Any link for software found via Google leads back to the same broken link.
The only alternative is to join Nonags.com, which is not free.

#3Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 01/05/2009 - 18:18.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010604171952/http://www.ultima-thule.co.uk/...

#4Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 06/02/2008 - 11:18.

Strings (Mark Russinovich, now @ M$) does this from the console.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897439.aspx

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