Editions at a glance
since 0.9.7.6
Purpose
This page shows what separates Free, Home and Pro. You can see whether a setting still has to be configured or is not part of your edition.
Setup Foundry comes in three editions: Free, Home and Pro. All three are the same program. Your license decides which edition runs.
Every edition contains everything needed for a complete installation medium. You can download a Windows source from Microsoft or import an ISO file of your own. Every edition includes the administrator account, the software selection with search, the security policies, the USB drive, the ISO file, and the test machine with Hyper-V or VirtualBox. Free creates complete installation media.
Notes
| Feature | Free | Home | Pro |
|---|---|---|---|
| Download Windows from Microsoft or use your own ISO | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| USB drive and ISO as medium | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Software catalogue with search | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test machine (Hyper-V or VirtualBox) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Quick policies (password, screen lock) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Own background image | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Deselect policy packages | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Remove preinstalled Windows apps, your own selection | default list | ✓ | ✓ |
| Windows area (clean up the image) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Configure Install Assist (start mode, color scheme) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Persistent policy audit | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Keep installed applications up to date | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Further machines, purposes, checkpoints, packing and shared folder | — | — | ✓ |
| Policy editor | — | — | ✓ |
| Several image variants per source | — | — | ✓ |
| Computer names by scheme | — | — | ✓ |
| Office deployment | — | — | ✓ |
| Additional Windows accounts | — | — | ✓ |
| Company, manufacturer and logo per profile | — | — | ✓ |
| Medium as virtual hard disk (VHD) | — | — | ✓ |
| Enable Hyper-V in the finished Windows | — | — | ✓ |
Home includes everything in Free. You can select the eleven policy packages for the medium one by one. You make your own selection of the preinstalled Windows apps to remove. The Windows area cleans up the Windows image. You can configure Install Assist on the target computer. You can choose your own background image. You can switch the persistent policy audit and keeping installed applications up to date on and off.
In Free, the persistent policy audit and keeping installed applications up to date always run. Free sets the Foundry image as the Windows default for the desktop background and the lock screen; the user can change it in Windows.
In Free, Setup Foundry removes the preinstalled Windows apps on the default list. You cannot change this list in Free. This has nothing to do with the software selection of the programs to install.
In Free, Install Assist uses the dark start mode and the blue color scheme. From Home onwards, you can choose a light or dark start mode and one of four color schemes.
Pro includes everything in Home. It adds further machines with purposes, checkpoints, packing and a shared folder, and the policy editor. You can create several image variants from one Windows source. You can set computer names by a scheme that Install Assist gives the finished computer. Pro also includes Office deployment, additional Windows accounts beside the administrator account, company, manufacturer and logo per profile, the medium as a virtual hard disk (VHD), and enabling Hyper-V in the finished Windows.
Setup Foundry ships the same security policies in all three editions. From Home onwards, you choose which of the eleven packages go onto the medium. The packages are Sign-in and accounts, Privacy and telemetry, Edge and Internet Explorer, Devices and removable media, Kernel protection, Drive encryption, Network and file sharing, Office hardening, Logging and auditing, Virus protection and attack surface, and Windows Update.
If it does not work
- The switched edition is not active: Restart Setup Foundry. An edition you switch to with a license takes effect only after Setup Foundry is restarted.