By default, edit windows are not opened in a maximized state. At startup, WinHex can optionally show the Start Center or restore the last window arrangement (all windows with their sizes and the positions as you left them in the precedent WinHex session). Terminating a previous instance is another option, but of course should be avoided, as data loss may occur. The second instance also shows some technical information about what the already running instance is doing at the moment, and can do so even without recovering a supposedly hanging previous instance. For example, should X-Ways Forensics get into an infinite loop when processing a certain file during volume snapshot refinement, this can potentially help the already running instance break out of that loop and proceed with the next file. At that time you may also try to recover a previous instance if caught in an infinite loop.
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exe file again, whether to start a new instance or not. That means you will be given a choice when executing the.
By default, this option is half selected. If not checked, WinHex makes the main window of the previous instance the foreground window instead of creating a new program instance. The option Allow multiple program instances allows you execute to WinHex more than once on a single computer at a time.
This can be remembered by Windows in the registry hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER under \Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers, but has no effect on installations on removable media. Under Windows Vista and later it may be recommendable to always run WinHex/X-Ways Forensics as administrator if you need sector-level access to media.