License Types
You may evaluate WinHex free of charge, for at most 45 days. For regular use and for use as a full version, you need at least one license. For multiple users at the same time or use on multiple machines by one user at the same time, you will also need additional licenses. License agreement. Unlike the evaluation version, the full version of WinHex will save files larger than 200 KB, write disk sectors, edit virtual memory and show no evaluation version reminders. It will reveal its licensing status on start-up and in the About box (the window that appears when you click the version number in the upper right corner).
Personal licenses are available at a reduced price for non-commercial purposes only, in a non-business, non-institutional, and non-government environment.
Professional licenses allow usage of the software in any environment (at home, in a company, in an organization, or in public administration). Professional licenses provide the ability to execute scripts.
Specialist licenses in addition to that allow to use Specialist menu commands, read the file systems exFAT, Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, Next3®, CDFS/ISO9660, UDF, can highlight free drive space and slack space, enable support for RAID reconstruction, Windows dynamic disks, Linux LVM2, some more columns in the directory browser, and reverse disk cloning/imaging. Particularly useful for IT security specialists.
WinHex Lab Edition in addition to that understand the file systems HFS, HFS+/HFSJ/HFSX, ReiserFS, Reiser4, XFS, and many variants of UFS and UFS2, allow to create evidence file containers, and allow to run regular X-Tensions.
Licenses for X-Ways Forensics (forensic licenses) in addition to the above allow to use the powerful case managing and report generating capabilities, the internal viewer and the separate viewer component, the gallery view, many more volume snapshot refinement operations, many more columns and filters in the directory browser (and the order of the columns can be changed), comments and report tables. Furthermore, they allow to read and write evidence files (.e01) and much more. Particularly useful for computer forensic examiners.
X-Ways Investigator is a simplified version of X-Ways Forensics. It does not have all the functionality of X-Ways Forensics, not even all the functionality of WinHex, and focuses on non-technical aspects such as review of pictures, documents and e-mails. Users of X-Ways Forensics can temporarily reduce the user interface of X-Ways Forensics to that of X-Ways Investigator to see exactly which menu commands and options are available and decide whether additional licenses for X-Ways Investigator would benefit their organization to split up the investigative workload across multiple users, some of which may be specialized in areas other than computer forensics. X-Ways Investigator is not really meant as a stand-alone product.
The maximum number of simultaneous character sets in the text display also depends on the license type (cf. View menu). A more complete license type comparison can be found online at http://www.x-ways.net/winhex/comparison.html. Please see http://www.x-ways.net/order.html on how to order your licenses. Thank you.