Writing to a running (in-use) executable file

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omidgl, I think it would be too hard to write to the file being executed since the file is exclusively locked by windows for write access - it is nessesary for the memory manager be behave correctly.

There is a tool called Unlocker that can close exclusive file handles (it uses kernel mode driver internally). But Unlocker won't help you in this case - it say's it failed to find exclusive file handles for the process being executed.

The best you can do is to rename the executable (WinNT dosn't prevent this), then copy the file data back to the original file and modify the original file as you need.