What is pwdrvio.sys?

pwdrvio.sys is digitally signed by MiniTool Solution Ltd.

pwdrvio.sys is usually located in the 'C:\Windows\system32\' folder.

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Vendor and version information [?]

pwdrvio.sys does not have any version or vendor information.

Digital signatures [?]

pwdrvio.sys has a valid digital signature.

PropertyValue
Signer nameMiniTool Solution Ltd
Certificate issuer nameGlobalSign CodeSigning CA - G2
Certificate serial number1121cb5d7302c7544c0407cb59ffde7fb180

VirusTotal report

None of the 56 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the pwdrvio.sys file.

None of the 56 anti-virus programs detected the pwdrvio.sys file.

Folder name variants

pwdrvio.sys may also be located in other folders than C:\Windows\system32\. The most common variants are listed below:

Hashes [?]

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MD5c32ecb99ad25e9a04f01c8665df29ef8
SHA2560489b3dec6a33e50d8a48a8dad3f5b923a81f7300e4a71358d90d2879bac9aa2

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What did other users do?

The poll result listed below shows what users chose to do with pwdrvio.sys. 17% have voted for removal. Based on votes from 41 users.

User vote results: There were 7 votes to remove and 34 votes to keep

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Comments

Please share with the other users what you think about this file. What does this file do? Is it legitimate or something that your computer is better without? Do you know how it was installed on your system? Did you install it yourself or did it come bundled with some other software? Is it running smoothly or do you get some error message? Any information that will help to document this file is welcome. Thank you for your contributions.

I'm reading all new comments so don't hesitate to post a question about the file. If I don't have the answer perhaps another user can help you.

Dr.Flay writes

1 thumb

Device driver for "MiniTool Partition Wizard".
Required for lowlevel device access.

A top tool for the tech-toolbag.

# 16 Jun 2017, 7:18

wolfmom21fl writes

0 thumbs

This is a partition tool to change the sizes of each partition with out getting into very technical stuff, it allows you to easily resize your C; drive when you are running low on space and you still have a lot of unused extra space in another drive partition

# 9 Jan 2019, 12:31

Roger Karlsson writes

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@Flay and @Wolfmom: Thank you for sharing!

# 2 Feb 2019, 19:54

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