How can Remove Intel Rapid Storage Technology Safely

Intel Rapid Storage Technology causing issue and want to remove it from the PC? If you haven’t found a safe and effective way to uninstall Intel Rapid Storage Technology, just check these guides and you will find some solutions that can help you.

What is it?

According to the description from Intel®’s website, the Intel® RST UI supports system acceleration with Intel® Optane™ Memory as well as advanced features such as RAID management and Intel® Smart Response Technology (Intel® SRT). It is an additional driver that provides extra functions and supports, so people can choose to remove it for their personal reasons.

Most frequent reasons to uninstall Intel Rapid Storage Technology

• The driver causes system issues for many times
• It improves nothing on the computer
• Always gets device errors on the PC
• System often crashes and reboot for the driver

General difficulties of removing the program

• Don’t know where to start the removal
• Not sure about whether it can be removed or not on the PC
• Have no idea what’s the correct and safe way to uninstall it
• Cannot find the driver in computer’s device manager
• Intel Rapid Storage Technology is not available on Windows’ uninstall panel

How to remove Intel Rapid Storage Technology safely

1 – Through Windows’ Control Panel

Windows’ Control Panel provides a removing feature, which supports the user to remove unwanted applications on their computers. To remove Intel Rapid Storage Technology manually, you can see the following how-to guides:

• (Windows 8/8.1/10)Click on the small Windows icon to open the menu, select Programs and features, if you are using Windows 7, you should firstly click to open Control Panel on the menu, and then access on the feature via clicking “Uninstall a program”

• Right-click on Intel Rapid Storage Technology on the list, and select Uninstall

• Start and continue the removing process with uninstall wizards
• Restart your computer, search for Intel Rapid Storage Technology on the PC and make sure everything has been clear well
• If you cannot find Intel RST available on the panel, you should process to the second or third method for a try.

2 – Remove it via device manage

Generally, Intel Rapid Storage Technology exist on the Device Manager, which is a place to manage all of drivers and devices on the PC, including modify and delete one of them. To remove Intel RST in this way, you will have to conduct all of the following steps (please note first that it is usually taken by the advanced PC users and not a good way for the common users):

• For Windows 8/8.1/10, right-click on the little Windows icon on the bottom left corner of the screen, and choose Device Manager
  (For older OS, click on Start button, right-click on Computer >select Properties > click Device Manager on the left pane)

• Double-click to open IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers, and go to Driver tab
• Click on the Uninstall button to delete the driver, and reboot the computer when finish
• Log-in the computer and access to Device Manager again, and make sure everything related to the Intel Rapid Storage Technology has been disappear, if you still find something related on the list, you should disable and delete them.

If you still cannot find Intel RST on the Device Manager or cannot complete the removal smoothly, turn to try another way.

3 – Remove Intel Rapid Storage Technology with Bloatware Uninstaller

To remove the complex apps and drivers, advanced third party uninstall tool could be a good choice for the people, it can save the troublesome steps to find and delete the associated components and processes on the PC, and provides a easy-to-follow removing steps to help you complete the removal quickly. Bloatware Uninstaller is one of the good option that can help you remove Intel Rapid Storage Technology well.

• Get a latest version of Bloatware Uninstaller on the computer
• Launch it and select Intel Rapid Storage Technology on its interface
• Click Run Analysis to scan the app on the computer
• Click Complete Uninstaller, and Yes to start the removal
• Follow the instructions to process the removal, and then click on Scan Leftovers

• Click on Delete leftovers button to clean out those files remained on the computer, and you will finish all of steps and remove Intel Rapid Storage Technology from the PC.