There's got to be some other tool that hacks embedded bitmaps...

I always enjoyed using Borland's Resource Workshop for this. Although its primary purpose was to edit the source code resources for your own programs, it also let you directly edit .EXE files if you wanted. Very slick. You could go in and edit menus, or fields in dialog boxes if you wanted. And yes, bitmaps as well. I've edited the card backs in video poker programs with it, for example.

Sometimes you could even perform genuine hacks with it. For example, if a shareware version of a program put up a custom dialog box as its pester screen, simply deleting or renaming that resource made the box go away. If a program's "save" function was disabled in the shareware release, sometimes a simple menu edit took care of it. Most software is much smarter than this. But there were a few that could be tricked in this fashion.

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Tony Fabris