Feature comparison
The Free Edition is portable and lets you apply privacy settings when you need them. Premium adds an installed background service, named profile management, and automatic protection.
| Feature | Free Edition | Premium Edition |
|---|---|---|
| Privacy settings and recommendation levels | Yes | Yes |
| Create system restore points; undo recorded setting changes | Yes | Yes |
| AI removal and Edit Mode | Yes | Yes |
| Configuration export/import | Settings files (.cfg) | Named profiles (.pcfg) |
| Named profiles and profile management (.pcfg) | No | Yes |
| No installation required | Yes | No |
| Change machine-wide settings without elevating the client | No; restart as administrator | Yes, through the running service |
| Background automatic protection | No | Yes, when enabled and the service is available |
Choose an edition​
Choose Free for manual review and configuration. Choose Premium if you want the service to monitor and re-apply your selected settings in the background or to manage named profiles. Installation and service administration may still require administrator rights.
Automatic protection is subject to permissions, Windows protection, and conflict handling. Hybrid Mode can exclude settings repeatedly overridden by another authority. Review Automatic protection and Profiles editor for the available controls.
Group Policy​
Group Policy can configure registry values through Registry preference items as well as administrative templates. A missing ADMX template does not by itself make a setting impossible to manage with Group Policy. See Microsoft Learn — Group Policy preferences.
Coordinate O&O ShutUp10 with your organization’s policies. Premium can monitor the settings it supports on standalone and managed computers, but it does not guarantee that it can override every policy or restore every setting after an update. Use Hybrid Mode to avoid repeatedly competing with domain policy. Profile export/import supports reusing configurations; it is not itself a remote fleet-management console.