Usage

🎉Let's learn how to use PyRcEdit correctly.

We think you followed our guide and installed PyRcEdit on your system. If not please proceed to that section here

Now it's time for dive into the tool...

1. You can see all available commands by typing,

pyrcedit -h

this will print out all commands and their usage. However, in here we learn them deeply.

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Changing the versions of the file

In PE file there is two versions. One is FileVersion other one is ProductVersion. You can change these two by running these commands:

pyrcedit --set-file-version 1.2.3.4
pyrcedit --set-product-version 1.2.3.4

This will change your both version to 1.2.3.4

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Change the icon

Every PE file has icon. If not, windows showing default icon. You can edit this by using --set-icon command

pyrcedit --set-icon <path-to-ico-file>

Note: Only .ico file can be added to the icon. Use some image to icon converter for get .ico file.

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View/Change other information's

In PE files not only versions and icon, there are more information's stored. Such as string-names in here. You can view/change them by using following commands.

pyrcedit --get-version-string CompanyName
pyrcedit --get-version-string FileDescription
pyrcedit --get-version-string LegalCopyright

Above commands will show you what are the current values in the file. After that you can change them.

pyrcedit --set-version-string CompanyName <Your-Company-Name>
pyrcedit --set-version-string FileDescription <You-Description>
pyrcedit --set-version-string LegalCopyright <Your-Copyright>

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Change run as who?

You know some software's asking for admin privileges when you run them. They are asking it for process something in the software. But if you don't want them to ask it or you want some file ask admin permission you can edit it using PyRcEdit.

pyrcedit --set-requested-execution-level <level>

There are three levels you can use in here. asInvoker | highestAvailable | requireAdministrator

asInvoker : The application runs at the same permission level as the process that started it. You can elevate the application to a higher permission level by selecting Run as Administrator

highestAvailable : The application runs at the highest permission level that it can. If the user who starts the application is a member of the Administrators group, this option is the same as level='requireAdministrator'. If the highest available permission level is higher than the level of the opening process, the system prompts for credentials

requireAdministrator : The application runs using administrator permissions. The user who starts the application must be a member of the Administrators group. If the opening process isn't running with administrative permissions, the system prompts for credentials.