# X-Ways Forensics Reviews
**Vendor:** X-Ways Software  
**Category:** [Digital Forensics Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/digital-forensics)  
**Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 2
## About X-Ways Forensics
X-Ways Forensics is an advanced work environment for computer forensic examiners and our flagship product. Runs under Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008/7/8/8.1/2012/10\*, 32 Bit/64 Bit, standard/PE/FE. (Windows FE is described here, here and here.) Compared to its competitors, X-Ways Forensics is more efficient to use after a while, by far not as resource-hungry, often runs much faster, finds deleted files and search hits that the competitors will miss, offers many features that the others lack, as a German product is potentially more trustworthy, comes at a fraction of the cost, does not have any ridiculous hardware requirements, does not depend on setting up a complex database, etc.! X-Ways Forensics is fully portable and runs off a USB stick on any given Windows system without installation if you want. Downloads and installs within seconds (just a few MB in size, not GB). X-Ways Forensics is based on the WinHex hex and disk editor and part of an efficient workflow model where computer forensic examiners share data and collaborate with investigators that use X-Ways Investigator.




## X-Ways Forensics Reviews
  ### 1. The best forensic software

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Enforcement | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 24, 2019

**What do you like best about X-Ways Forensics?**

Reasinably oriced, Easy to use, nicely laid out and does what it says on the tin without major bugs.

**What do you dislike about X-Ways Forensics?**

When refining vol snapshot Mutithreading is not efficient.

**What problems is X-Ways Forensics solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We are in a law enforcement environment and X-Ways is our main forensic tool, we find that its the best for the procedures we have in place and the features it offers fits out requirements. It enables us to complete investigations quicker and produce very accurate evidence and enables us to have confidence in the work that we produce which I can't say about some of the other tools out there.

  ### 2. I have used Xways from last two years during my DRIF activities.

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2019

**What do you like best about X-Ways Forensics?**

Fast Keyword search and deleted files recovery.

**What do you dislike about X-Ways Forensics?**

Some time takes more time for mounting disk.

**What problems is X-Ways Forensics solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Fast and accurate forensics analysis on cold boot mode. Also time line analysis.



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## X-Ways Forensics Features
**Analysis**
- File Analysis
- Memory Analysis
- Registry Analysis
- Email Analysis
- Linux Analysis

**Functionality**
- Incident Alerts
- Anomaly Detection
- Continuous Analysis
- Decryption

**Remediation**
- Incident Reports
- Remediation Suggestions
- Response Automation

**Generative AI**
- AI Text Generation
- AI Text Summarization

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