WD Boost

A guide to uninstall WD Boost from your computer

WD Boost is a computer program. This page holds details on how to uninstall it from your computer. It is developed by Western Digital Corporation. Check out here for more information on Western Digital Corporation. More data about the program WD Boost can be found at http://www.wdc.com. WD Boost is typically set up in the C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost directory, regulated by the user's option. The full command line for uninstalling WD Boost is MsiExec.exe /I{45D8C5B4-9339-46B3-9082-3765B6DBCA53}. Note that if you will type this command in Start / Run Note you may receive a notification for admin rights. WD Boost's primary file takes about 60.23 KB (61680 bytes) and is called WDBoost.exe.

The executables below are part of WD Boost. They take an average of 133.97 KB (137184 bytes) on disk.

• HIOCmd.exe (73.73 KB)
• WDBoost.exe (60.23 KB)

The information on this page is only about version 3.44.0.0 of WD Boost. Click on the links below for other WD Boost versions:

• 1.50.0.0
• 3.34.0.0

Some files, folders and registry entries can not be removed when you remove WD Boost from your PC.

You should delete the folders below after you uninstall WD Boost:

• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost

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

• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\{4d3e129a-6af3-4241-8651-2bd64391b6bf}.iostats
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\{592072b6-cf48-4cc6-8cad-0cea13631a57}.iostats
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\{c3764028-26ac-42b2-a5d4-dbc2978539e8}.iostats
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\ADS.dll
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\bootopt.bat
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\DeviceModels.DAT
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\DeviceModels.xml
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\DiskOptimizer.dll
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\HIO.dll
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\HIOAPI.dll
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\HIOCmd.exe
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\hiofs\hiofs.cat
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\hiofs\hiofs.inf
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\hiofs\hiofs.sys
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\hiosd\hiosd.cat
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\hiosd\hiosd.inf
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\hiosd\hiosd.sys
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\HUIO.dll
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\IM.dll
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\License.rtf
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\MJS.dll
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\MSIHelper.dll
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\NsNtfsAutoAnalyze.dll
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\NsNtfsBootOptimization.dll
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\NsNtfsTVE-Ex.dll
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\PrFacade.dll
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\Scheduler.dll
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\SFS.dll
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\Tab.dll
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\TCBase.dll
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\TCCore.dll
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\TCM.dll
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\WDBoost.exe
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\x86\Tab.dll
• C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\x86\TCBase.dll
• C:\Windows\Installer\{45D8C5B4-9339-46B3-9082-3765B6DBCA53}\ARPPRODUCTICON.exe

Use regedit.exe to manually remove from the Windows Registry the keys below:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\4B5C8D5493393B64092873566BBDAC35
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{45D8C5B4-9339-46B3-9082-3765B6DBCA53}
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Western Digital\WD Boost

Use regedit.exe to delete the following additional values from the Windows Registry:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\4B5C8D5493393B64092873566BBDAC35\ProductName
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\Folders\C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Boost\
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\Folders\C:\Windows\Installer\{45D8C5B4-9339-46B3-9082-3765B6DBCA53}\
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\WD Boost\ImagePath

How to erase WD Boost from your computer using Advanced Uninstaller PRO

WD Boost is an application by Western Digital Corporation. Sometimes, users try to remove this application. This is difficult because performing this by hand requires some know-how related to PCs. One of the best SIMPLE practice to remove WD Boost 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, install it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is one of the best uninstaller and all around tool to maximize the performance of your Windows system.

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• navigate to Download Link
• download the program by clicking on the DOWNLOAD NOW button
• install Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. It's recommended to take your time to admire the program's design and number of tools available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very good Windows optimizer.

3. Press the General Tools button


4. Click on the Uninstall Programs tool


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

6. Scroll the list of programs until you find WD Boost or simply click the Search field and type in "WD Boost". If it exists on your system the WD Boost app will be found very quickly. Notice that after you click WD Boost in the list of programs, some data regarding the application is shown to you:

• Safety rating (in the left lower corner). The star rating tells you the opinion other users have regarding WD Boost, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Reviews by other users - Press the Read reviews button.
• Technical information regarding the program you are about to uninstall, by clicking on the Properties button.

For example you can see that for WD Boost:

• The software company is: http://www.wdc.com
• The uninstall string is: MsiExec.exe /I{45D8C5B4-9339-46B3-9082-3765B6DBCA53}

7. Press the Uninstall button. A window asking you to confirm will come up. accept the removal by clicking the Uninstall button. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will then uninstall WD Boost.


8. After removing WD Boost, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run an additional cleanup. Press Next to go ahead with the cleanup. All the items of WD Boost which have been left behind will be detected and you will be able to delete them. By removing WD Boost with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no Windows registry items, files or folders are left behind on your disk.

Your Windows PC will remain clean, speedy and ready to take on new tasks.

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Disclaimer

The text above is not a recommendation to remove WD Boost by Western Digital Corporation from your computer, we are not saying that WD Boost by Western Digital Corporation is not a good application. This page only contains detailed info on how to remove WD Boost supposing 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.