WD Drive Utilities

WD Drive Utilities

by Western Digital Technologies, Inc.

What is WD Drive Utilities?

WD Drive Utilities is software application developed by Western Digital Technologies, Inc.. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 10 with nearly 48.94% of installations running this operating system. WD Drive Utilities's installer is typically 12.00 MB in size and installs around 23 files. The most common release is 1.0.3.3 with 24.73% of all installations currently using this version.

WD Drive Utilities is most popular in the United States with 58.42% of installations residing in this country.

WD Drive Utilities adds 1 scheduled task to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times.

About WD Drive Utilities?

The WD Drive Utilities and WD Security software are included in the WD Drive Utilities and WD Security zip files. They are designed to install custom Western Digital software for use with WD USB and FireWire enabled external hard drives. The WD Drive Utilities software provides users with the ability to configure, manage, and diagnose their WD drives.

Software Behaviors

Scheduled tasks:
  • WDDriveUtilities.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{DFDB1F80-CEAD-4738-B876-E7BE4005C8B7}' (runs on registration).

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:
  • WDDriveUtilitiesHelper.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named DriveUtilitiesHelper_Reg_HKLMWow6432Run.

Software Details

URL:
https://support.wdc.com
Support:
Installation path:
C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Utilities\
Uninstaller:
MsiExec.exe /X{72E40002-8CEC-47C1-A099-83AC8E173BF0}
Size:
12.00 MB
Language:
English

WD Drive Utilities Executable Details

Primary executable:
WDDriveUtilities.exe
Name:
WD Drive Utilities
Path:
C:\Program Files\Western Digital\WD Utilities\WDDriveUtilities.exe
MD5:
bc97f3606ad3b4a9fad7927234813a82
SHA-1:
SHA-256:
Files installed by WD Drive Utilities
File Type Filename MD5
EXE
f3b548598ffbb19c56844029e9b3301e
DLL
a214f0571d8eddbc4e385a8ff14b0422
DLL
72325e657bdb54dac330990b25e31848
DLL
4c0b9e1fc44c5903136d8e6419ece545
DLL
209d087fcd876d4670d4d520d46d0431
DLL
0893dd5ec13e2ab4f4863f114fa71f3b
DLL
9cd631a897931f2d45cc5204b740c42f
DLL
dac0d08a2f0d8ba0ffb333e6064f6d0a
DLL
e2407eff913538a1a4b230f624d1ac91
EXE
610fa1c3ebdd079c86c32eef213733fc