Newbie question ASPR 1.23 RC4 (long!)

Sorry to waste your time, but here I go again...

In the meantime, you should look into trying to remove those three extra sections. It makes good practice.

The first thing that I've tried out to get rid of dispensable sections was to open the unpacked app in a hex editor and take a look at the different sections as indicated by ROffset in the PE Editor of LordPE.
By this way I've found out that for example .adata contains no 'real' data but instead it consists of 4096 (=0x1000) zeros (that's exactly its virtual and raw size). I think, because of this, the whole section can be deleted. So I've wiped the corresponding section header and adjusted the next section's (.mackt) ROffset from 313000 to 312000. With the hex editor I've erased the afore mentioned 4096 bytes and safed the resulting file.
Next I've opened the resulting file again with PE Editor and changed SizeOfImage from 316000 to 315000, hoping that would do the trick.

Guess what? It didn't work

Perhaps it's time to have a closer look at how a PE file really works and try to fix things only in a hex editor

Greetings
Wurstgote