Waves Central

How to uninstall Waves Central from your PC

This info is about Waves Central for Windows. Below you can find details on how to remove it from your PC. It is developed by Waves Audio Ltd. You can read more on Waves Audio Ltd or check for application updates here. The application is often placed in the C:\Program Files\Waves Central folder (same installation drive as Windows). The complete uninstall command line for Waves Central is C:\Program Files\Waves Central\Uninstall Waves Central.exe. Waves Central's main file takes about 168.87 MB (177076592 bytes) and is named Waves Central.exe.

Waves Central is comprised of the following executables which take 268.88 MB (281946032 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 (4.30 MB)
• curl.exe (3.18 MB)
• wle.exe (1.47 MB)
• vcredist_x86_2005.sp1.exe (2.58 MB)
• vcredist_x86_2008.sp1.exe (4.28 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 16.0.7 of Waves Central. You can find below a few links to other Waves Central releases:

• 15.4.7
• 13.0.15
• 12.0.20
• 15.5.5
• 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
• 16.0.4
• 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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Some files and registry entries are usually left behind when you uninstall Waves Central.

Folders left behind when you uninstall Waves Central:

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

Usually, the following files remain on disk:

• 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\metadata.json
• 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\compile-info.yaml
• 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

Registry keys:

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

Additional values that are not cleaned:

• 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 Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Waves Central is a program by the software company Waves Audio Ltd. Frequently, users try to uninstall this application. Sometimes this is difficult because uninstalling this by hand takes some know-how related to PCs. One of the best SIMPLE manner to uninstall Waves Central is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Here are some detailed instructions about how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO already installed on your PC, add it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very potent uninstaller and all around tool to maximize the performance of your computer.

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

2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take some time to admire the program's design and wealth of functions available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very good package of utilities.

3. Click on the General Tools category


4. Activate the Uninstall Programs button


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

6. Scroll the list of programs until you find Waves Central or simply activate the Search feature and type in "Waves Central". If it is installed on your PC the Waves Central application will be found automatically. Notice that after you select Waves Central in the list of programs, the following information regarding the program is made available to you:

• Star rating (in the left lower corner). The star rating tells you the opinion other users have regarding Waves Central, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Opinions by other users - Click on the Read reviews button.
• Details regarding the application you wish to uninstall, by pressing the Properties button.

7. Click the Uninstall button. A confirmation window will show up. Confirm the uninstall by pressing Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will automatically remove Waves Central.


8. After uninstalling Waves Central, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run a cleanup. Press Next to perform the cleanup. All the items of Waves Central which have been left behind will be detected and you will be asked if you want to delete them. By uninstalling Waves Central with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no Windows registry items, files or directories are left behind on your computer.

Your Windows computer will remain clean, speedy and ready to run without errors or problems.

Disclaimer

This page 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. This page simply contains detailed info on how to uninstall Waves Central supposing you decide this is what you want to do. Here you can find registry and disk entries that our application Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' PCs.