Help Menu
Contents: Displays the contents of the program help.
Setup: Allows you switch the language of the user interface. With Initialize you can restore the default settings of the program. Uninstall: Use this command to remove WinHex from your system. This works properly even if you did not install WinHex using the setup program.
Online: Opens in your browser, if you have an Internet connection, the X-Ways web site, the support forum, the newsletter subscription page, and a page where you can check your license status, retrieve the latest download links and get upgrade offers. There is also an option to check for updates online occasionally upon start-up of the software or at any time when you like. This can report the availability of later versions or new service releases of the currently used version (not pre-release versions) and allow to start the download. Does not send any data from within the program to the Internet, for example no system or user information or dongle ID, neither directly nor encrypted nor anonymized, of course no case data, not even the currently used version number, nothing. This option is active by default only if the program determines that it is running on the user's own system (if it is executed from the C: drive or if it was installed using the setup program). The check does not occur when running the program for the first time, so that you definitely have a chance to turn off this option before anything happens. Given the fact that most systems on which X-Ways Investigator and X-Ways Forensics are run do not have an Internet connection, this option has a limited effect.
Click on the version number on the far right of the menu bar: Displays information about the software such as the program version, unlock status, how much free space is available to it on the drive for temporary files and image files, whether the program is running with administrator rights, whether the MS Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable Package (for the latest version of the viewer component and Dokan) is installed and if not whether at least the MS Visual C++ 2005 Package is installed (for v8.5.2 of the viewer component and older). Some of this information can be important when running X-Ways Forensics on a live system, i.e. a system that is not your own and that you wish to examine.