WDsmartware building etilqs_ files in my windows temp folder - filling my drive!

I went to the Microsoft Answers Forum for help on this topic, and after a lot of work by me and them, got an answer on how to delete those un-needed etil* files that WD generated.  IMHO it is WD’s responsibility to delete them on the many computers they may have put these obsolete files on, or at least tell users how to delete them themselves.  It isn’t enough to say that the latest update doesn’t make them anymore.  WD left a lot of garbage for others to clean up.

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The first URL takes you to the last post, which gives the DOS command to delete these files, after you’ve done some other things that may be necessary.  The second URL takes you back to the first thread that started this discourse.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-performance/what-ms-tools-are-available-for-advanced-disk/c2a04f89-19e3-4d05-97dc-95c0664fe0ba?page=2&tm=1337441389988

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_other-performance/disk-full-messages-keep-returning/b6492cb3-ee91-4688-be41-9ea92fad148f