Overview
What is TheGun?
TheGun is a simple, small, easy to use, free text editor
In depth
A closer look at TheGun
TheGun (Grown Up Notepad) is written in Microsoft Assembler (MASM) with abuild size of 6144 bytes. The file IO capacity has been rewritten to both increase the maximum file size and to allow the viewing and editing of binary files. This is very useful for viewing string data in binary files
Verdict
Should you download TheGun?
TheGun runs on
Windows 9X/ME/2K/XP/2003/Windows 10/11
and is available under the
Freeware
license
— the installer is 15 KB.
We’ve catalogued it under
Manipulation and Conversion.
✓
Verified clean. Every TheGun build on SoftLookup is scanned for viruses, spyware, adware, trojans and backdoors. We re-test on every update.
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At a glance
TheGun specifications
- Last updated
- May 1, 2026
- License
- Freeware
- Operating system
- Windows 9X/ME/2K/XP/2003/Windows 10/11
- File size
- 15 KB
- Price
- Free
- Page views
- 566
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