HP Drive Encryption

A way to uninstall HP Drive Encryption from your PC

You can find on this page details on how to remove HP Drive Encryption for Windows. It is made by Hewlett-Packard Company. Further information on Hewlett-Packard Company can be seen here. More details about HP Drive Encryption can be seen at www.hp.com/services/protecttools. The program is frequently placed in the C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\Drive Encryption directory (same installation drive as Windows). You can uninstall HP Drive Encryption by clicking on the Start menu of Windows and pasting the command line C:\windows\SysWOW64\msiexec.exe /i {A79E6FE6-4412-49DD-A8BF-DA24EF8EC8DE}. Keep in mind that you might be prompted for administrator rights. The application's main executable file occupies 38.73 KB (39664 bytes) on disk and is labeled WinMagic.HP.SecurityManagerCmd.exe.

The executable files below are installed together with HP Drive Encryption. They occupy about 2.36 MB (2474736 bytes) on disk.

• SDPEFilter.exe (236.50 KB)
• SDPEFilter_X64.exe (896.50 KB)
• WinMagic.HP.SecurityManagerCmd.exe (38.73 KB)
• WMPBR.exe (197.50 KB)
• SDEFITool_X64.exe (1.02 MB)

The information on this page is only about version 8.6.16.42 of HP Drive Encryption. Click on the links below for other HP Drive Encryption versions:

• 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
• 8.6.3.65
• 8.6.1.160
• 8.6.7.27
• 8.5.4.124
• 8.6.8.45
• 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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How to remove HP Drive Encryption from your PC with Advanced Uninstaller PRO

HP Drive Encryption is a program released by Hewlett-Packard Company. Frequently, users choose to remove it. Sometimes this is troublesome because performing this by hand takes some knowledge regarding Windows internal functioning. The best SIMPLE approach to remove 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, add it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is the best uninstaller and all around tool to clean your Windows computer.

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• navigate to Download Link
• download the setup by pressing the DOWNLOAD NOW button
• set up Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. It's recommended to take some time to get familiar with the program's interface and number of tools available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very good program.

3. Click on the General Tools button


4. Activate the Uninstall Programs feature


5. A list of the applications installed on your PC will be made available to you

6. Navigate the list of applications until you find HP Drive Encryption or simply activate the Search feature and type in "HP Drive Encryption". If it is installed on your PC the HP Drive Encryption program will be found very quickly. After you click HP Drive Encryption in the list , some information about the program is shown to you:

• Safety rating (in the lower left corner). The star rating explains the opinion other users have about HP Drive Encryption, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Reviews by other users - Click on the Read reviews button.
• Details 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 {A79E6FE6-4412-49DD-A8BF-DA24EF8EC8DE}

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


8. After removing HP Drive Encryption, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run a cleanup. Press Next to go ahead with the cleanup. All the items of HP Drive Encryption that have been left behind will be found and you will be asked if you want to delete them. By uninstalling HP Drive Encryption with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no Windows registry items, files or directories are left behind on your system.

Your Windows computer will remain clean, speedy and ready 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 computer, we are not saying that HP Drive Encryption by Hewlett-Packard Company is not a good software application. This text only contains detailed instructions on how to remove HP Drive Encryption in case you want to. Here you can find registry and disk entries that other software left behind and Advanced Uninstaller PRO discovered and classified as "leftovers" on other users' PCs.