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
549f6735f986e1ddc0c85a3502052fec
DLL
8f0cb5ca0c982efcec40241f81f9cc11
DLL
b3f20781c32907a02b16c8e8e2a32e74
DLL
ead03b9a61a23ff6275ca364a1c6536f
DLL
40d92727627eec97a16f29a6922cfd24
DLL
518bca9dfd9218037fd3dcd5e6a43844
DLL
6d2785ee12248a5d3f08d1de7947be7a
DLL
76c0f9b976ba35a5380a185fe73072c1
DLL
dc782dd56bee62afa2c153f7a9061daf
DLL
384f6efc1d01c0fe3010eabfbd9941db