HP Drive Encryption

A guide to uninstall HP Drive Encryption from your computer

HP Drive Encryption is a software application. This page holds details on how to uninstall it from your computer. It is written by HP. More data about HP can be read here. More info about the application HP Drive Encryption can be seen at www.hp.com/services/protecttools. The application is frequently installed in the C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\Drive Encryption folder. Take into account that this path can differ depending on the user's preference. The full command line for removing HP Drive Encryption is C:\windows\SysWOW64\msiexec.exe /i {8DBD3AE1-5BED-4458-A17E-B68C9832DD9C}. Note that if you will type this command in Start / Run Note you might get a notification for admin rights. HP Drive Encryption's main file takes about 39.64 KB (40592 bytes) and is named WinMagic.HP.SecurityManagerCmd.exe.

The executable files below are part of HP Drive Encryption. They occupy about 2.43 MB (2544272 bytes) on disk.

• SDPEFilter.exe (236.50 KB)
• SDPEFilter_X64.exe (896.50 KB)
• WinMagic.HP.SecurityManagerCmd.exe (39.64 KB)
• WMPBR.exe (197.50 KB)
• SDEFITool_X64.exe (1.09 MB)

This page is about HP Drive Encryption version 8.6.32.40 only. You can find here a few links to other HP Drive Encryption releases:

• 8.6.25.56
• 8.6.27.35
• 8.6.29.25
• 8.6.26.29
• 8.6.23.46
• 8.6.24.53

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How to uninstall HP Drive Encryption from your computer with Advanced Uninstaller PRO

HP Drive Encryption is an application released by HP. Sometimes, computer users choose to erase this program. Sometimes this is hard because doing this manually takes some know-how related to Windows program uninstallation. One of the best QUICK approach to erase HP Drive Encryption is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take the following steps on how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO already installed on your Windows PC, install it. This is a good step because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is an efficient uninstaller and all around utility to clean your Windows system.

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• visit Download Link
• download the program by pressing the green DOWNLOAD NOW button
• install Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take your time to get familiar with Advanced Uninstaller PRO's design and wealth of functions available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very useful system optimizer.

3. Click on the General Tools button


4. Press the Uninstall Programs feature


5. All the applications existing on the computer will be made available to you

6. Navigate the list of applications until you find HP Drive Encryption or simply click the Search feature and type in "HP Drive Encryption". The HP Drive Encryption app will be found very quickly. When you click HP Drive Encryption in the list , some information about the program is shown to you:

• Safety rating (in the left lower corner). The star rating explains the opinion other users have about HP Drive Encryption, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Opinions by other users - Click on the Read reviews button.
• Technical information about the program you want to remove, by pressing the Properties button.

For example you can see that for HP Drive Encryption:

• The publisher is: www.hp.com/services/protecttools
• The uninstall string is: C:\windows\SysWOW64\msiexec.exe /i {8DBD3AE1-5BED-4458-A17E-B68C9832DD9C}

7. Click the Uninstall button. A confirmation page will show up. Confirm the uninstall by pressing the Uninstall button. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will uninstall HP Drive Encryption.


8. After removing HP Drive Encryption, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run an additional cleanup. Press Next to perform the cleanup. All the items that belong HP Drive Encryption that have been left behind will be found and you will be able to delete them. By uninstalling HP Drive Encryption with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no Windows registry entries, files or directories are left behind on your PC.

Your Windows PC will remain clean, speedy and able to run without errors or problems.

Disclaimer

The text above is not a recommendation to remove HP Drive Encryption by HP from your PC, we are not saying that HP Drive Encryption by HP is not a good software application. This page simply contains detailed instructions on how to remove HP Drive Encryption in case you decide this is what you want to do. Here you can find registry and disk entries that Advanced Uninstaller PRO discovered and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.