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
48f3d8ab2a8562dd7a51af60d1c7c7be
EXE
eacc526f3c380deb071583c8d1ecc3e8
DLL
25e33d57f9a6741d8b911ad78fbe5b30
DLL
e132985f59d4879012c8315bf8059cda
DLL
f490f6b179453a991220adc5a2fac677
EXE
bc97f3606ad3b4a9fad7927234813a82
DLL
81b5b94c2b561fcc546d580ca002eab2
DLL
011f2193dffb6d5f65d210e9dc581667
DLL
8a9499f2f8fbaaf17da679b85b95d4be
DLL
24f9d6aa51a0ef4a8bf42fe9faf9473f