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by saagarjha 2852 days ago
Nope. There are ways to reverse engineer closed source apps and inject code into them.
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Also, depending on the platform, if a native application is following the platform guidelines, then quite a lot of things you want to change might be located in data files or "resource" section of the executable.

I haven't been messing much with Windows executables for quite a while, but back in the day, I'd "improve" many programs by just editing their resources.