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
e7e679dfd5704fb3bbae35b1675f66d9
DLL
3956225336012716e0e99541b5ff76f7
DLL
5c5d8d4e26159db2d0210e1b96b19387
DLL
6bc77942a02c620f985f77338cf9fed2
DLL
a14512897863d230da2147991a87efd6
DLL
154a0b0e4df921852b403f9c3710ebe0
DLL
e857894ac70983971930040e7a49f150
DLL
17c1f6b7e224239a45df2760ad534aa6
DLL
11b9c82c32bc5c0ea66eeb491c246f90
DLL
ead443b805f5dfddf6b384b214b28ddb