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FileAlyzer: analyze file properties and content

FileAlyzer is a free tool that analyzes the properties of a file and its contents. The tool can be accessed from the Windows Explorer’s context menu. So, you just have to right click on the file and select FileAlyzer.

It will then show you several tabs, each containing different kinds of information about the file. There is a preview tab which lets you view the file contents with syntax highlighting if FileAlyzer supports the format (Zip, HTML, RTF and more). FileAlyzer can also show rendered HTML files using its own parsers. So you don’t have to worry about IE doing bad things when you access a suspicious HTML file.

You can view a HEX dump of the file, read its security settings in a clearly presented tree, and can access the file streams. The General tab shows the same information as the properties view of the Windows Explorer plus the most common hash codes (CRC-32, MD5, SHA1).