WD Discovery

A guide to uninstall WD Discovery from your system

This web page contains complete information on how to uninstall WD Discovery for Windows. It is developed by Western Digital Technologies, Inc.. More information on Western Digital Technologies, Inc. can be found here. Please follow http://support.wdc.com if you want to read more on WD Discovery on Western Digital Technologies, Inc.'s page. Usually the WD Discovery program is placed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current folder, depending on the user's option during install. The entire uninstall command line for WD Discovery is C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\WD Discovery.exe --uninstall. The application's main executable file occupies 53.66 MB (56265192 bytes) on disk and is titled WD Discovery.exe.

WD Discovery contains of the executables below. They occupy 66.07 MB (69279568 bytes) on disk.

• dotNetFx45_Full_setup.exe (1.06 MB)
• Launch WD Discovery.exe (486.98 KB)
• rclone.exe (10.29 MB)
• Update WD Discovery Utilities.exe (505.98 KB)
• WD Discovery.exe (53.66 MB)
• WDDiscoveryMonitor.exe (21.48 KB)
• WDDiscoveryService.exe (65.48 KB)

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The current page applies to WD Discovery version 3.0.376 alone. You can find below info on other application versions of WD Discovery:

• 4.0.251
• 3.0.260
• 1.0.957
• 3.5.152
• 4.2.288
• 4.3.361
• 2.1.191
• 3.0.384
• 102.0.1.10
• 2.1.332
• 3.0.377
• 4.5.420
• 3.3.50
• 4.1.270
• 1.1.223
• 4.4.396
• 3.4.89
• 3.3.34
• 102.0.0.116
• 3.0.268
• 3.2.256
• 1.1.103
• 4.4.407
• 1.2.39
• 1.3.329
• 2.1.378
• 4.3.385
• 2.1.288
• 1.0.963
• 2.1.371
• 3.9.234
• 2.2.408
• 3.0.245
• 3.8.229
• 4.6.433
• 3.0.250
• 1.3.482
• 3.6.163
• 1.3.467
• 3.4.90
• 3.7.214
• 4.3.327
• 4.3.336

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When planning to uninstall WD Discovery you should check if the following data is left behind on your PC.

Folders left behind when you uninstall WD Discovery:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\WD Discovery Crashes
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\WD Discovery

Check for and delete the following files from your disk when you uninstall WD Discovery:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-core-console-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-core-datetime-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-core-debug-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-core-errorhandling-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-core-file-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-core-file-l1-2-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-core-file-l2-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-core-handle-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-core-heap-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-core-interlocked-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-core-libraryloader-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-core-localization-l1-2-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-core-memory-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-core-namedpipe-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-core-processenvironment-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-1.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-core-profile-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-core-rtlsupport-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-core-string-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-core-sysinfo-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-core-timezone-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-core-util-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-crt-conio-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-crt-environment-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-crt-filesystem-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-crt-multibyte-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-crt-private-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-crt-process-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-crt-string-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\api-ms-win-crt-utility-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\blink_image_resources_200_percent.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\content_resources_200_percent.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\content_shell.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\Contents\EULAs\cs-CZ\EULA.html
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\Contents\EULAs\da-DK\EULA.html
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\Contents\EULAs\de-DE\EULA.html
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\Contents\EULAs\el-GR\EULA.html
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\Contents\EULAs\en-US\EULA.html
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\Contents\EULAs\es-ES\EULA.html
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\Contents\EULAs\fi-FI\EULA.html
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\Contents\EULAs\fr-FR\EULA.htm
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\Contents\EULAs\hu-HU\EULA.html
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\Contents\EULAs\it-IT\EULA.html
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\Contents\EULAs\ja-JP\EULA.html
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\Contents\EULAs\ko-KR\EULA.html
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\Contents\EULAs\nb-NO\EULA.html
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\Contents\EULAs\nl-NL\EULA.html
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\Contents\EULAs\pl-PL\EULA.html
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\Contents\EULAs\pt-BR\EULA.html
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\Contents\EULAs\ru-RU\EULA.html
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\Contents\EULAs\sk-SK\EULA.html
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\Contents\EULAs\sv-SE\EULA.html
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\Contents\EULAs\tr-TR\EULA.html
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\Contents\EULAs\zh-CN\EULA.html
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\Contents\EULAs\zh-TW\EULA.htm
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\d3dcompiler_47.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\dotNetFx45_Full_setup.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\ffmpeg.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\icudtl.dat
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\Launch WD Discovery.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\libEGL.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\libGLESv2.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\LICENSE
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\am.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\ar.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\bg.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\bn.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\ca.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\cs.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\da.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\de.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\el.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\en-GB.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\en-US.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\es.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\es-419.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\et.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\fa.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\fake-bidi.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\fi.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\fil.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\fr.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\gu.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\he.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\hi.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\hr.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\hu.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\id.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\it.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\ja.pak

You will find in the Windows Registry that the following keys will not be removed; remove them one by one using regedit.exe:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\WDDiscovery

A way to uninstall WD Discovery with the help of Advanced Uninstaller PRO

WD Discovery is an application released by the software company Western Digital Technologies, Inc.. Frequently, users want to erase this application. Sometimes this is easier said than done because removing this manually takes some skill related to removing Windows programs manually. One of the best SIMPLE procedure to erase WD Discovery is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take the following steps on how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO on your system, add it. This is a good step because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very potent uninstaller and all around tool to maximize the performance of your PC.

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• navigate to Download Link
• download the setup by pressing the green DOWNLOAD NOW button
• set up Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take your time to get familiar with the program's design and number of functions available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very good PC management program.

3. Press the General Tools button


4. Activate the Uninstall Programs feature


5. A list of the applications existing on the computer will appear

6. Scroll the list of applications until you find WD Discovery or simply click the Search feature and type in "WD Discovery". If it exists on your system the WD Discovery application will be found automatically. When you select WD Discovery in the list of apps, the following data about the program is made available to you:

• Safety rating (in the lower left corner). The star rating explains the opinion other users have about WD Discovery, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Opinions by other users - Press the Read reviews button.
• Details about the application you are about to uninstall, by pressing the Properties button.

For example you can see that for WD Discovery:

• The software company is: http://support.wdc.com
• The uninstall string is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\WD Discovery.exe --uninstall

7. Press the Uninstall button. A confirmation dialog will come up. accept the removal by clicking the Uninstall button. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will then remove WD Discovery.


8. After removing WD Discovery, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will offer to run an additional cleanup. Click Next to perform the cleanup. All the items of WD Discovery that have been left behind will be detected and you will be asked if you want to delete them. By uninstalling WD Discovery using Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no Windows registry entries, files or directories are left behind on your PC.

Your Windows system will remain clean, speedy and able to serve you properly.

Disclaimer

The text above is not a piece of advice to remove WD Discovery by Western Digital Technologies, Inc. from your PC, we are not saying that WD Discovery by Western Digital Technologies, Inc. is not a good application for your computer. This page only contains detailed info on how to remove WD Discovery supposing you want to. The information above contains registry and disk entries that Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.