What is WD Discovery?

WD Discovery is software application developed by Western Digital Technologies, Inc.. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 10 with nearly 64.66% of installations running this operating system. WD Discovery's installer is typically 3.00 MB in size and installs around 67 files. The most common release is 102.0.1.10 with 52.93% of all installations currently using this version.

WD Discovery is most popular in the United States with 58.48% of installations residing in this country.

WD Discovery 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 is known to create 1 firewall exception to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.

Software Behaviors

Firewall:
  • WDDiscovery.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Discovery\WDDiscovery.exe'.
Scheduled tasks:
  • WDDiscovery.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{8FE62AC7-7E7D-4E84-8967-C64C676FB876}' (runs on registration).

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:
  • WD Discovery.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named 3.

Software Details

URL:
https://support.wdc.com
Support:
Installation path:
C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Discovery\
Uninstaller:
MsiExec.exe /X{02DC675D-4BA4-40D9-A94D-6895D07C7419}
Size:
3.00 MB
Language:
English

WD Discovery Executable Details

Primary executable:
WDDiscovery.exe
Name:
WD Discovery
Path:
C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Discovery\WDDiscovery.exe
MD5:
50c64849f499976dbadaaa8cf78d1103
SHA-1:
SHA-256:
Files installed by WD Discovery
File Type Filename MD5
DLL
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DLL
292ec24e8792143435072da94cccab9a
DLL
3b564f7f5a92b3dbdb1e84c3e24b66a9
DLL
094a4ebd3a57527a8aea84ac3131aefa
DLL
893ccbb69c80f31e4113fee262899556
DLL
84b028da34ae530b30412096aa49553e
DLL
93782e5ceec3e124d92286802903dbb2
DLL
68aaf65ec761f8ac0e98ddc68a9a5e5d
DLL
b5a9fab8a1fe14f47f953fb58b648fc8
DLL
eb9161fd0b8137d2c43bbe7c646c8e3c