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    WD My Passport Essential: Safe to delete preloaded exe's?

    Discussion in 'Accessories' started by purplegreendave, Oct 28, 2008.

  1. purplegreendave

    purplegreendave Has a notebook.

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    Can I delete all the preloaded stuff on it?
    It was given to me as a present with some films already on it, and works fine without installing all that crap on my laptop...

    Also, it clutters the place up something awfull.
     
    purplegreendave, Oct 28, 2008
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    Yeah, you can go ahead and delete everything. I have a couple of Passports and I've always deleted that stuff. It will work fine, it's just usually a helper program.
     
    QueenOfSpades, Oct 28, 2008
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  3. purplegreendave

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    Cool thanks
     
    purplegreendave, Oct 29, 2008
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    I format every drive as soon as i get them. It clears all the manufacturers junk off of them :)
     
    nizzy1115, Oct 29, 2008
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    Me too... I recently for the WD My Passport Essential, and it came with some WD sync software or similar...

    Though I immediately reformatted it (+1 on Nizzy ^^) and got the stuff I wanted inside it... got rid of the .exe' too.. and I also figured out, that if you need it in the future, you can download it from the WD website ;) ;)
     
    fonduekid, Oct 29, 2008
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