HP Drive Encryption

How to uninstall HP Drive Encryption from your computer

This page contains complete information on how to uninstall HP Drive Encryption for Windows. It was developed for Windows by Hewlett-Packard Company. You can read more on Hewlett-Packard Company or check for application updates here. You can get more details about HP Drive Encryption at www.hp.com/services/protecttools. HP Drive Encryption is frequently set up in the C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\Drive Encryption folder, however this location may vary a lot depending on the user's option while installing the application. C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msiexec.exe /i {95AF4616-A495-4B1E-8290-2105AF3FC46C} is the full command line if you want to uninstall HP Drive Encryption. WinMagic.HP.SecurityManagerCmd.exe is the HP Drive Encryption's main executable file and it takes approximately 38.73 KB (39664 bytes) on disk.

HP Drive Encryption is comprised of the following executables which take 2.17 MB (2272496 bytes) on disk:

• SDPEFilter.exe (236.50 KB)
• SDPEFilter_X64.exe (896.50 KB)
• WinMagic.HP.SecurityManagerCmd.exe (38.73 KB)
• SDEFITool_X64.exe (1.02 MB)

The information on this page is only about version 8.6.3.65 of HP Drive Encryption. You can find here a few links to other HP Drive Encryption releases:

• 8.6.2.59
• 8.6.1.80
• 8.6.6.16
• 8.6.15.30
• 8.6.4.82
• 8.6.14.20
• 8.5.2.12
• 8.6.11.10
• 8.6.1.160
• 8.6.7.27
• 8.5.4.124
• 8.6.8.45
• 8.6.16.42
• 8.6.10.35
• 8.6.13.12
• 8.6.5.142
• 8.5.1.138
• 8.6.21.61
• 8.6.20.33

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After the uninstall process, the application leaves some files behind on the computer. Some of these are shown below.

You will find in the Windows Registry that the following keys will not be cleaned; remove them one by one using regedit.exe:

• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.dml
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.hta
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.psc1
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\HPDriveEncryption

Open regedit.exe to delete the registry values below from the Windows Registry:

• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\{534A1E02-D58F-44f0-B58B-36CBED287C7C}\DllSurrogate
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\{e49dde22-c999-4d57-86fe-6d6c610d4b94}\DllSurrogate
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{DC7A02CD-2E47-406C-BA5A-B08EC00C4238}\LocalServer32\
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\gem_dml_file\shell\open\command\

How to delete HP Drive Encryption from your computer using Advanced Uninstaller PRO

HP Drive Encryption is a program offered by the software company Hewlett-Packard Company. Sometimes, people try to remove this program. This is hard because deleting this manually takes some knowledge related to removing Windows programs manually. One of the best QUICK procedure to remove HP Drive Encryption is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Here is how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO on your Windows system, install it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is the best uninstaller and all around utility to take care of your Windows system.

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• go to Download Link
• download the setup by pressing the DOWNLOAD NOW button
• install Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take your time to get familiar with Advanced Uninstaller PRO's interface and number of tools available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very useful package of tools.

3. Press the General Tools button


4. Click on the Uninstall Programs feature


5. All the programs installed on your computer will be made available to you

6. Navigate the list of programs until you find HP Drive Encryption or simply click the Search field and type in "HP Drive Encryption". If it exists on your system the HP Drive Encryption app will be found very quickly. Notice that after you select HP Drive Encryption in the list of programs, the following information regarding the program is shown to you:

• Safety rating (in the left lower corner). The star rating explains the opinion other people have regarding HP Drive Encryption, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Opinions by other people - Press the Read reviews button.
• Details regarding the app you want to remove, by pressing the Properties button.

For instance you can see that for HP Drive Encryption:

• The web site of the program is: www.hp.com/services/protecttools
• The uninstall string is: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msiexec.exe /i {95AF4616-A495-4B1E-8290-2105AF3FC46C}

7. Press the Uninstall button. A window asking you to confirm will appear. accept the uninstall by clicking Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will uninstall HP Drive Encryption.


8. After removing HP Drive Encryption, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will offer to run a cleanup. Press Next to go ahead with the cleanup. All the items that belong HP Drive Encryption that have been left behind will be found and you will be asked if you want to delete them. By removing HP Drive Encryption using Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no Windows registry items, files or folders are left behind on your disk.

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

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Disclaimer

The text above is not a piece of advice to remove HP Drive Encryption by Hewlett-Packard Company from your PC, we are not saying that HP Drive Encryption by Hewlett-Packard Company is not a good application for your computer. This text simply contains detailed info on how to remove HP Drive Encryption supposing you decide this is what you want to do. Here you can find registry and disk entries that Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.