does anybody know hot to edit .exe files,so i could edit files of portable apps to try and fix buggs because i know other portable apps websites and there apps have bugs and i message them and they do not update there files,so if there is a way plz tell me
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Um...
If you don't know how to compile a program, chances are you don't have a chance at fixing bugs.
No offense of course...
okay, here's how.
Every program you edit differs upon which programming language is used to make that application.
For example, our program use the programming language NSIS, so we use this program to compile our applications.
But other sites might use different programming language. It's your job to find out which one they are, get their source code, and recompile.
To edit the launcher for most portableapps which follow our (PortableApps.com) format, you would just modify the NSIS files in X:/PortableApps/[AppName]/Other/Source. To modify the applications themselves, you would need to obtain the source code from the original developers of the actually app (Like, for Firefox, Mozilla makes it, and the source code for it is available for download at Mozilla's website).
But, after editing the source code, or decompiling the exe and editing it's source code, you would need a compiler to compile the source code into a new .exe program. Depending on the language of the code (By the way, source code comes in different programing languages), you would need different programs to compile the code.
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i diddnt mean like that,all i wanted to do was extract the file if you know what i mean lol and then find a specific file for the specific program so i can edit that and then put it all back into a exe file and run it,
So, ya, you need to work with the source code from the program(s). Insted of extracting stuff (Which would leave you with a worse mess than just using the source code), you just find what you need to find in the source, then recompile it. (The recompiling is the putting back into the .exe. The source code is the extracted files (The origianal dev's did that part already.))
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