HP Drive Encryption

A way to uninstall HP Drive Encryption from your system

You can find below detailed information on how to remove HP Drive Encryption for Windows. It was created for Windows by HP. Take a look here where you can read more on HP. More details about HP Drive Encryption can be seen at www.hp.com/services/protecttools. HP Drive Encryption is normally set up in the C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\Drive Encryption folder, but this location can vary a lot depending on the user's option when installing the program. The entire uninstall command line for HP Drive Encryption is C:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64\msiexec.exe /i {E0E5975B-6D35-48FF-98F9-30647CD3FDE8}. WinMagic.HP.SecurityManagerCmd.exe is the programs's main file and it takes approximately 39.23 KB (40176 bytes) on disk.

The executables below are part of HP Drive Encryption. They take about 2.44 MB (2553584 bytes) on disk.

• SDPEFilter.exe (236.50 KB)
• SDPEFilter_X64.exe (896.50 KB)
• WinMagic.HP.SecurityManagerCmd.exe (39.23 KB)
• WMPBR.exe (197.50 KB)
• SDEFITool_X64.exe (1.10 MB)

The information on this page is only about version 8.6.23.46 of HP Drive Encryption. You can find below info on other releases of HP Drive Encryption:

• 8.6.25.56
• 8.6.27.35
• 8.6.32.40
• 8.6.29.25
• 8.6.26.29
• 8.6.24.53

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HP Drive Encryption has the habit of leaving behind some leftovers.

The files below are left behind on your disk when you remove HP Drive Encryption:

• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\https--www.bing.com-searchq=hp+drive+encryption&form=WNSGPH&qs=AS&cvid=8718bca26514478a82a9fbb7fb72b80d&pq=hp%20drive%20enc.lnk

Registry that is not uninstalled:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\B5795E0E53D6FF84899F0346C73DDF8E
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\HPDriveEncryption

Additional registry values that you should remove:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\B5795E0E53D6FF84899F0346C73DDF8E\ProductName
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\cphs\ImagePath
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\esifsvc\ImagePath
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\PerfHost\ImagePath

How to erase HP Drive Encryption from your PC with Advanced Uninstaller PRO

HP Drive Encryption is a program by HP. Frequently, users decide to uninstall this application. Sometimes this can be troublesome because performing this by hand takes some advanced knowledge regarding removing Windows programs manually. One of the best QUICK procedure to uninstall 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 system, add it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is the best uninstaller and general tool to take care of your system.

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• go to Download Link
• download the setup by clicking on the DOWNLOAD button
• install Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take some time to get familiar with the program's interface and number of tools available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a powerful Windows optimizer.

3. Press the General Tools button


4. Click on the Uninstall Programs feature


5. A list of the applications existing on the computer will be shown to you

6. Scroll the list of applications until you find HP Drive Encryption or simply activate the Search field and type in "HP Drive Encryption". The HP Drive Encryption application will be found automatically. After you click HP Drive Encryption in the list of programs, the following information regarding the program is made available to you:

• Star rating (in the lower left corner). The star rating tells you the opinion other people have regarding HP Drive Encryption, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Reviews by other people - Press the Read reviews button.
• Technical information regarding the program you are about to remove, by clicking on the Properties button.

For instance you can see that for HP Drive Encryption:

• The software company is: www.hp.com/services/protecttools
• The uninstall string is: C:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64\msiexec.exe /i {E0E5975B-6D35-48FF-98F9-30647CD3FDE8}

7. Press the Uninstall button. A window asking you to confirm will come up. Confirm the removal by pressing Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will uninstall HP Drive Encryption.


8. After uninstalling HP Drive Encryption, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will offer to run a cleanup. Press Next to start the cleanup. All the items that belong HP Drive Encryption which have been left behind will be found and you will be able to delete them. By removing HP Drive Encryption using Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no registry items, files or directories are left behind on your system.

Your PC 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 HP from your PC, we are not saying that HP Drive Encryption by HP is not a good application. This text simply contains detailed info on how to remove HP Drive Encryption supposing you decide this is what you want to do. The information above contains registry and disk entries that Advanced Uninstaller PRO discovered and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.