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
08a7b819d60e670c86b81887020600cf