If you have an old VM, fire it up. Import PROGMAN.EXE . Change "Program Manager" to your own name. Save. Run it.
By Windows XP, Microsoft’s own resource tools had won by default. Here’s the surprising part: I still run Borland Resource Workshop in 2026 . borland resource workshop
If you cut your teeth on Windows programming in the early 90s—using C, Turbo Pascal, or even Visual Basic—you remember the Resource Compiler dance. If you have an old VM, fire it up
It represents an era when software came in a cardboard box, documentation was printed on paper, and a single 500KB EXE could edit any resource in any Windows program. Here’s the surprising part: I still run Borland
The last standalone Resource Workshop was version 4.5 (bundled with Borland C++ 4.5 in 1994). It received minor updates but never made the jump to 64-bit native.
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