Waves Central

A guide to uninstall Waves Central from your system

Waves Central is a software application. This page contains details on how to uninstall it from your PC. The Windows version was created by Waves Audio Ltd. You can read more on Waves Audio Ltd or check for application updates here. Waves Central is typically installed in the C:\Program Files\Waves Central directory, but this location can differ a lot depending on the user's decision when installing the application. C:\Program Files\Waves Central\Uninstall Waves Central.exe is the full command line if you want to remove Waves Central. The application's main executable file is called Waves Central.exe and it has a size of 168.87 MB (177076592 bytes).

Waves Central installs the following the executables on your PC, taking about 270.17 MB (283290224 bytes) on disk.

• Uninstall Waves Central.exe (446.83 KB)
• Waves Central.exe (168.87 MB)
• elevate.exe (115.36 KB)
• instl-V10.exe (13.11 MB)
• instl-V9.exe (13.11 MB)
• instl.exe (5.58 MB)
• curl.exe (3.18 MB)
• wle.exe (1.47 MB)
• vcredist_x86_2005.sp1.MFC.EXE (2.58 MB)
• vcredist_x86_2008_sp1.exe (4.27 MB)
• vcredist_x64_2012.exe (6.85 MB)
• vcredist_x86_2012.exe (6.25 MB)
• vcredist_x64_2013.exe (6.86 MB)
• VC_redist.x64.exe (24.29 MB)
• VC_redist.x86.exe (13.19 MB)

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The information on this page is only about version 15.4.7 of Waves Central. Click on the links below for other Waves Central versions:

• 13.0.15
• 12.0.20
• 14.0.7
• 13.0.9
• 12.0.8
• 13.3.2
• 15.0.2
• 15.1.3
• 13.2.4
• 13.5.3
• 12.0.16
• 13.0.10
• 15.0.3
• 12.0.7
• 15.3.3
• 14.4.3
• 14.3.2
• 15.2.3
• 14.0.6
• 12.0.12
• 11.0.53
• 14.6.3
• 11.0.43
• 14.6.2
• 11.0.55
• 14.4.2
• 15.4.4
• 14.5.2
• 13.0.12
• 11.0.50
• 11.0.46
• 14.0.9
• 11.0.58
• 14.0.8
• 14.1.1
• 12.0.15
• 12.0.11
• 13.3.1
• 15.2.2
• 12.0.19
• 11.0.41
• 13.4.1
• 15.4.5
• 11.0.40
• 14.3.1
• 13.1.4
• 11.0.60

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

Directories that were left behind:

• C:\Program Files\Waves Central
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\Waves Audio\Waves Central
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\Waves Central

The files below were left behind on your disk by Waves Central's application uninstaller when you removed it:

• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\chrome_100_percent.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\chrome_200_percent.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\d3dcompiler_47.dll
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\ffmpeg.dll
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\icudtl.dat
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\libEGL.dll
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\libGLESv2.dll
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\LICENSE.electron.txt
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\LICENSES.chromium.html
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\af.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\am.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\ar.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\bg.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\bn.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\ca.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\cs.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\da.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\de.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\el.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\en-GB.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\en-US.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\es.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\es-419.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\et.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\fa.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\fi.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\fil.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\fr.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\gu.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\he.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\hi.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\hr.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\hu.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\id.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\it.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\ja.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\kn.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\ko.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\lt.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\lv.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\ml.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\mr.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\ms.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\nb.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\nl.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\pl.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\pt-BR.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\pt-PT.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\ro.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\ru.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\sk.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\sl.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\sr.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\sv.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\sw.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\ta.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\te.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\th.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\tr.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\uk.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\ur.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\vi.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\zh-CN.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\locales\zh-TW.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources.pak
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\app.asar
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\app-update.yml
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\elevate.exe
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Info.xml
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Resources\defaults\create-indexes.ddl
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Resources\defaults\create-tables.ddl
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Resources\defaults\create-triggers.ddl
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Resources\defaults\create-views.ddl
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Resources\defaults\drop-indexes.ddl
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Resources\defaults\drop-triggers.ddl
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Resources\defaults\drop-views.ddl
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Resources\defaults\init-values.ddl
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Resources\defaults\InstlAdmin.yaml
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Resources\defaults\InstlClient.yaml
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Resources\defaults\InstlClientSync.yaml
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Resources\defaults\InstlDoIt.yaml
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Resources\defaults\InstlGui.yaml
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Resources\defaults\InstlMisc.yaml
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Resources\defaults\main.yaml
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Resources\defaults\pip-freeze.txt
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Resources\defaults\short-index.ddl
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Resources\help\helpHelper.py
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Resources\help\pybatch_help.txt
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Win64\_internal\_asyncio.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Win64\_internal\_bz2.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Win64\_internal\_ctypes.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Win64\_internal\_decimal.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Win64\_internal\_elementtree.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Win64\_internal\_hashlib.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Win64\_internal\_lzma.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Win64\_internal\_multiprocessing.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Win64\_internal\_overlapped.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Win64\_internal\_queue.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Win64\_internal\_socket.pyd
• C:\Program Files\Waves Central\resources\res\external\bin\instl.bundle\Contents\Win64\_internal\_sqlite3.pyd

Registry keys:

• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\waves-central
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{ab507e17-892b-5203-838d-d58d8d09c50f}

Open regedit.exe in order to remove the following registry values:

• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Program Files\Waves Central\Waves Central.exe.ApplicationCompany
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Program Files\Waves Central\Waves Central.exe.FriendlyAppName

How to remove Waves Central with the help of Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Waves Central is an application offered by Waves Audio Ltd. Some people choose to erase this program. Sometimes this can be troublesome because doing this by hand requires some know-how regarding removing Windows applications by hand. One of the best QUICK procedure to erase Waves Central 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 a very potent uninstaller and all around utility to optimize your Windows computer.

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• navigate to Download Link
• download the setup by pressing the green 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 wealth of functions available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a powerful PC management program.

3. Press the General Tools button


4. Click on the Uninstall Programs tool


5. All the applications installed on the PC will be shown to you

6. Scroll the list of applications until you locate Waves Central or simply click the Search field and type in "Waves Central". The Waves Central application will be found very quickly. Notice that when you click Waves Central in the list of programs, the following information regarding the application is available to you:

• Safety rating (in the lower left corner). This explains the opinion other users have regarding Waves Central, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Reviews by other users - Press the Read reviews button.
• Technical information regarding the app you want to remove, by pressing the Properties button.

7. Click the Uninstall button. A confirmation window will appear. accept the removal by pressing Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will automatically remove Waves Central.


8. After uninstalling Waves Central, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will offer to run a cleanup. Press Next to perform the cleanup. All the items that belong Waves Central which have been left behind will be detected and you will be able to delete them. By removing Waves Central using Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no registry items, files or folders are left behind on your computer.

Your system will remain clean, speedy and ready to serve you properly.

Disclaimer

The text above is not a piece of advice to uninstall Waves Central by Waves Audio Ltd from your computer, we are not saying that Waves Central by Waves Audio Ltd is not a good application for your computer. This page only contains detailed instructions on how to uninstall Waves Central supposing you decide this is what you want to do. The information above contains registry and disk entries that our application Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' PCs.