In order to stop SmartWare from running, please follow the following steps: We would like to apologize for the inconvenience. Thank you for contacting Western Digital Customer Service and Support… I went through the whole thing, just as they laid it out… and so far, so good. The last portion (Step 4, regarding the stopping and restarting of WD services may also be crucial). NET are current, then updating firmware, then uninstall/reinstall latest WD software. In your case, you might try their method of checking that Java, Flash, and. I hope so.īe aware that anti-virus and anti-spyware should be turned off first. Note that I was already using the latest versions of the WD firmware, the WD software, and Windows.NET, so perhaps uninstalling and reinstalling was the trick in my case. Keeping fingers crossed against memory leakage/creep. Never goes over 25% useage now.įollowed the steps provided below by Western Digital Service and Support and seems to be working adequately so far. These are the steps I took and it’s been working perfect ever since. Now, you can open your downloaded update and let it self install. Next, if you have a registry cleaner tool(download CCleaner.exe from ), run it to get rid of any left over junk the uninstall left behind. This will completely remove it from your system. Uninstall the WD Smartware software from your Control Panel. Download it to where you can find it again. Go to WD website and download the latest version of software for your product. That is why it is running even when you are not backing up. You see, this software is constantly running and monitoring your entire hard drive for file changes to automatically backup. Highlight that process and then click “End Process”. WDFME.EXE was using over 70 million bytes on mine. There, you should see a process using waaaaaay more than anything else. That will bring up the real time usage list. Click “Show processes from all users” at the bottom of Task Manager. Use Task Manager(ctrl, alt, and del all at the same time) to get in there and look at the processes running.
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