WD Discovery

A way to uninstall WD Discovery from your system

This web page is about WD Discovery for Windows. Here you can find details on how to uninstall it from your PC. The Windows version was developed by Western Digital Technologies, Inc.. More information about Western Digital Technologies, Inc. can be found here. You can see more info on WD Discovery at http://support.wdc.com. Usually the WD Discovery application is found in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current directory, 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. WD Discovery.exe is the WD Discovery's main executable file and it takes circa 53.66 MB (56265192 bytes) on disk.

The executables below are part of WD Discovery. They occupy about 131.76 MB (138162376 bytes) on disk.

• dotNetFx45_Full_setup.exe (66.76 MB)
• Install WD Discovery Utilities.exe (505.98 KB)
• Launch WD Discovery.exe (486.98 KB)
• rclone.exe (10.29 MB)
• WD Discovery.exe (53.66 MB)
• WDDiscoveryMonitor.exe (21.48 KB)
• WDDiscoveryService.exe (65.48 KB)

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The information on this page is only about version 3.0.268 of WD Discovery. You can find here a few links to 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
• 3.2.256
• 1.1.103
• 4.4.407
• 1.2.39
• 1.3.329
• 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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When you're planning to uninstall WD Discovery you should check if the following data is left behind on your PC.

Folders remaining:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\Discovery\Current
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\WD Discovery Crashes
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\WDTEMP\WD Discovery.exe-sfx
• 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\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\exit.txt
• 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

Registry that is not removed:

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

How to erase WD Discovery from your computer with Advanced Uninstaller PRO

WD Discovery is a program by the software company Western Digital Technologies, Inc.. Sometimes, people decide to remove it. Sometimes this can be efortful because doing this by hand requires some skill related to removing Windows programs manually. One of the best QUICK practice 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 the best uninstaller and general tool to maximize the performance of your PC.

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

2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. It's recommended to take some time to get familiar with the program's interface and number of tools available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a powerful package of tools.

3. Press the General Tools category


4. Press the Uninstall Programs tool


5. All the applications existing on your computer will be shown to you

6. Scroll the list of applications until you locate WD Discovery or simply activate the Search field and type in "WD Discovery". If it exists on your system the WD Discovery app will be found automatically. When you click WD Discovery in the list of apps, the following information about the program is shown to you:

• Safety rating (in the lower left corner). This tells you the opinion other people have about WD Discovery, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Opinions by other people - Press the Read reviews button.
• Details about the program you wish to uninstall, by pressing the Properties button.

For example 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 appear. accept the uninstall by clicking the Uninstall button. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will uninstall WD Discovery.


8. After removing WD Discovery, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run a cleanup. Click Next to perform the cleanup. All the items that belong WD Discovery that have been left behind will be detected and you will be asked if you want to delete them. By removing WD Discovery with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no registry items, files or folders are left behind on your computer.

Your PC will remain clean, speedy and ready to run without errors or problems.

Disclaimer

This page is not a piece of advice to uninstall WD Discovery by Western Digital Technologies, Inc. from your computer, nor are we saying that WD Discovery by Western Digital Technologies, Inc. is not a good application for your PC. This page simply contains detailed instructions on how to uninstall WD Discovery in case you want to. Here you can find registry and disk entries that our application Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.