WD Discovery Software

WD Discovery Software

by Western Digital Technologies, Inc.

What is WD Discovery Software?

WD Discovery Software is software application developed by Western Digital Technologies, Inc.. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 65.44% of installations running this operating system. WD Discovery Software's installer is typically 7.00 MB in size and installs around 11 files. The most common release is 1.80 with 64.00% of all installations currently using this version.

WD Discovery Software is most popular in the United States with 48.96% of installations residing in this country.

WD Discovery Software adds 1 scheduled task to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times. When using a computer that is connected to the internet, WD Discovery Software is known to create 1 firewall exception to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.

About WD Discovery Software?

The Discovery Tool is an essential software application designed to efficiently identify and locate WD drives within the network. The tool also facilitates the creation of mapped network drives by accessing and linking to the shared folders within the identified WD drives.

Software Behaviors

Firewall:
  • WD Discovery.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Discovery Software\WD Discovery.exe'.
Scheduled tasks:
  • WD Discovery.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{DD3B27BE-20E2-49D9-BAA4-0FCEB8F2F8F1}' (runs on registration).

Software Details

URL:
https://support.wdc.com
Support:
Installation path:
C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Discovery Software\
Uninstaller:
MsiExec.exe /I{324F388E-4F28-42D6-ADD1-9AB27D249523}
Size:
7.00 MB
Language:
English

WD Discovery Software Executable Details

Primary executable:
WD Discovery.exe
Name:
WD Discovery Software
Path:
C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Discovery Software\WD Discovery.exe
MD5:
37e8d3d1fcd42eb724330a770a0ffb2e
SHA-1:
SHA-256:
Files installed by WD Discovery Software
File Type Filename MD5
DLL
a0346def4951d15a12fe339aa77d1174
EXE
b2b44dea431bb70595af339f594dd2bb
EXE
37e8d3d1fcd42eb724330a770a0ffb2e
DLL
b10ec499ca5362a6526bffec1940e77e
DLL
8e377f9ee28d92eddd28b69b2cf54c35
DLL
86da4fb4d3b667795e0a0c8dce2ee636
DLL
4beeaae9c0a5771c74df97c8341e507d
DLL
45c2ff6c947b74d0a0b002ade764c043
DLL
2342f0aaac525d00753023d24e3d418b
DLL
443087737e52daf21759060a44996efa