* If many thousand search hits or bookmarks were listed and highlighting was enabled, the display previously became rather slow. Both physical and relative (=logical) offsets are now displayed for logical search hits, if available, in separate columns. This is particularly useful for compressed files or files with search hits in decoded raw text only, where no physical disk offsets corresponds to the search hits and could be shown. * Listings of search hits now usually allow you to open the corresponding file that contains the hit and (in the case of logically found search hit) automatically jump to the seach hit position. This feature requires the separate viewer component to be active for the decoding and text extraction part. Potential search hits in such files would otherwise be missed because these file types typically store text in an encoded, encrypted or otherwise garbled way. * Logical search operations can now optionally extract and decode the text contained in Adobe PDF documents, Corel WordPerfect (WPD), Corel Draw (CDR), and Microsoft Visio (VSD) files and search the plaintext automatically. Physical access to DVDs under Windows 2000/XP can now read protected sectors. * Physical access to floppy disks under Windows 2000/XP is now 20% faster than before. In addition to that, it is now possible to view/edit physical RAM (under Windows 2000 and XP). * The RAM viewer/RAM editor so far was able to load the virtual memory of active processes. If anyone somehow manages to import the database, please share it :) Again, it's nothing to do with the software quality, but it's a bit limited at this stage. The RAM editor is ok, but I never use it because it's not easy to search and track changes. Not a vital priority, but it's nice to have. I know, it doesn't matter, and that's what I thought as well, but I have to admit that I like the way Total Commander looks now compared to the Win3.1 icons. The only things I'd like to see in winHex: Heck, it opens a 600MB disk image in a blink of an eye to start with. And again, no, there are no free alternative that even come close. Thus, I don't see new revisions as fixing a sinking ship, but as improvements over a, allow me to say it, a good product. I did however see new features implemented, and the author is responsive. Out of the many times I tried it, I never ever experienced a bug. When I don't see bug fixes for competitors, I laugh because I know serious bugs must exist, but they either aren't being discovered, reported, or fixed. When I see frequent bug fixes, I am glad that the bugs are being discovered and fixed. If you simply read the release notes, it should be plain to you that at least some of the fixes are important (though not necessarily to all users of WinHex). Proof of this is the suggestion that WinHex's updates include "minor" or "unnecessary". The only software that doesn't have bugs is a day-one "Hello, World!" program, and even that is debatable. The only type of person who frowns on frequent bug fixes-especially that of software as heavy-duty and complicated in function as WinHex-is a person who knows nothing about software development. I happen to know that the WinHex developer reads these reviews, but I am 99% sure he has never posted a review. How interesting that someone thinks I am the developer of WinHex! I guess it's totally implausible that a user could login and post positive reviews.
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