WD Discovery

A way to uninstall WD Discovery from your PC

WD Discovery is a computer program. This page holds details on how to remove it from your PC. It is written by Western Digital Technologies, Inc.. You can read more on Western Digital Technologies, Inc. or check for application updates here. More info about the software WD Discovery can be found at http://support.wdc.com. The application is usually found in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current folder. Keep in mind that this path can differ being determined by the user's choice. You can remove WD Discovery by clicking on the Start menu of Windows and pasting the command line C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\WD Discovery.exe --uninstall. Note that you might be prompted for admin rights. WD Discovery.exe is the WD Discovery's primary executable file and it takes approximately 54.26 MB (56894976 bytes) on disk.

The executables below are part of WD Discovery. They occupy an average of 77.36 MB (81112856 bytes) on disk.

• Launch WD Discovery.exe (487.00 KB)
• rclone.exe (10.29 MB)
• Update WD Discovery Utilities.exe (506.00 KB)
• WD Discovery.exe (54.26 MB)
• WDDiscoveryMonitor.exe (21.50 KB)
• WDDriveUtilitiesSetup.exe (11.81 MB)

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This web page is about WD Discovery version 1.3.329 only. Click on the links below for other WD Discovery versions:

• 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
• 2.1.378
• 4.3.385
• 3.0.376
• 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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Quite a few files, folders and Windows registry entries can be left behind when you remove WD Discovery from your computer.

Directories left on disk:

• 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 remove the following files from your disk when you uninstall WD Discovery:

• 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\de-DE\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\fr-FR\EULA.html
• 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\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.html
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\d3dcompiler_47.dll
• 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\Install WD Discovery Utilities.exe
• 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
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\kn.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\ko.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\lt.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\lv.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\ml.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\mr.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\ms.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\nb.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\nl.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\pl.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\pt-BR.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\pt-PT.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\ro.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\ru.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\sk.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\sl.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\sr.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\sv.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\sw.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\ta.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\te.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\th.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\tr.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\uk.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\vi.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\zh-CN.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\locales\zh-TW.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\natives_blob.bin
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\node.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\Packages\manifest.json
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\Packages\WDDriveUtilities\manifest.json
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\Packages\WDDriveUtilities\redist\dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\Packages\WDDriveUtilities\WDDriveUtilitiesSetup.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\rclone.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\resources\app.asar
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\resources\electron.asar
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\snapshot_blob.bin
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\ui_resources_200_percent.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\version
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\views_resources_200_percent.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\WD Discovery.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\WDDiscoveryMonitor.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\xinput1_3.dll
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\WD Discovery Crashes\operation_log.txt

Use regedit.exe to manually remove from the Windows Registry the keys below:

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

How to uninstall WD Discovery from your PC with the help of Advanced Uninstaller PRO

WD Discovery is a program released by the software company Western Digital Technologies, Inc.. Some people want to remove it. Sometimes this is efortful because deleting this by hand takes some know-how related to Windows internal functioning. One of the best SIMPLE approach to remove 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 PC, add it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is one of the best uninstaller and all around utility to maximize the performance of your system.

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• navigate to Download Link
• download the setup by clicking on the green DOWNLOAD NOW button
• install Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take some time to admire Advanced Uninstaller PRO's interface and wealth of tools available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a powerful package of utilities.

3. Click on the General Tools button


4. Activate the Uninstall Programs tool


5. A list of the programs installed on your computer will be shown to you

6. Navigate the list of programs until you locate WD Discovery or simply activate the Search feature and type in "WD Discovery". The WD Discovery application will be found very quickly. After you click WD Discovery in the list of applications, some data about the application is made available to you:

• Star rating (in the lower left corner). This tells you the opinion other people have about WD Discovery, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Reviews by other people - Click on the Read reviews button.
• Technical information about the program you are about to remove, by clicking on the Properties button.

For instance you can see that for WD Discovery:

• The web site of the application is: http://support.wdc.com
• The uninstall string is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current\WD Discovery.exe --uninstall

7. Click the Uninstall button. A confirmation dialog will show up. accept the removal by pressing the Uninstall button. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will remove WD Discovery.


8. After removing WD Discovery, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run an additional cleanup. Click Next to start the cleanup. All the items that belong WD Discovery which have been left behind will be found and you will be able to delete them. By removing WD Discovery using Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no registry entries, files or folders are left behind on your computer.

Your computer will remain clean, speedy and ready to take on new tasks.

Disclaimer

This page is not a recommendation 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 software application. This text only contains detailed info on how to remove WD Discovery supposing you want to. Here you can find registry and disk entries that Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.