WD Drive Utilities

A guide to uninstall WD Drive Utilities from your system

This page is about WD Drive Utilities for Windows. Here you can find details on how to uninstall it from your PC. It was created for Windows by Western Digital Technologies, Inc.. More data about Western Digital Technologies, Inc. can be found here. Please follow http://support.wdc.com if you want to read more on WD Drive Utilities on Western Digital Technologies, Inc.'s web page. The application is often found in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\WD Utilities folder. Take into account that this path can differ depending on the user's choice. The complete uninstall command line for WD Drive Utilities is C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{2a9b37ff-fcda-4176-8d0a-890e8447a114}\WDDriveUtilitiesSetup.exe. WDDriveUtilities.exe is the programs's main file and it takes circa 6.29 MB (6600192 bytes) on disk.

The following executables are installed along with WD Drive Utilities. They take about 13.27 MB (13912576 bytes) on disk.

• WD Quick Formatter.exe (4.82 MB)
• WDDriveUtilities.exe (6.29 MB)
• WDDriveUtilitiesHelper.exe (2.16 MB)

The current page applies to WD Drive Utilities version 2.1.2.146 alone. You can find below info on other releases of WD Drive Utilities:

• 1.0.6.3
• 1.4.1.39
• 2.0.0.48
• 2.0.0.63
• 2.1.0.25
• 2.1.2.167
• 2.0.0.54
• 2.1.0.130
• 2.0.0.44
• 2.0.0.76
• 1.1.0.51
• 2.0.0.25
• 1.4.1.51
• 1.3.0.16
• 1.4.3.13
• 1.3.0.17
• 1.0.5.7
• 1.4.2.11
• 2.1.0.142
• 2.0.0.70
• 1.0.3.3
• 1.2.0.85
• 2.1.2.165
• 1.0.4.11
• 2.1.0.20
• 2.0.0.69
• 1.4.0.92
• 1.3.1.2
• 1.0.7.3
• 2.0.0.26
• 1.4.3.41
• 2.1.0.115
• 1.4.3.37
• 1.3.0.18
• 2.0.0.71
• 1.3.2.2

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Some files and registry entries are frequently left behind when you uninstall WD Drive Utilities.

The files below were left behind on your disk by WD Drive Utilities's application uninstaller when you removed it:

• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\WD_Drive_Utilities_20240407110030_000_DriveUtilitiesSetup.log

A way to erase WD Drive Utilities from your PC with the help of Advanced Uninstaller PRO

WD Drive Utilities is a program released by Western Digital Technologies, Inc.. Some people try to erase this application. Sometimes this is hard because deleting this manually takes some advanced knowledge related to Windows program uninstallation. The best EASY manner to erase WD Drive Utilities is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take the following steps on how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO already installed on your Windows PC, install it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very useful uninstaller and general tool to optimize your Windows computer.

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

2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take your time to admire Advanced Uninstaller PRO's interface and number of tools available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a powerful package of utilities.

3. Click on the General Tools category


4. Press the Uninstall Programs button


5. A list of the applications existing on the PC will be made available to you

6. Scroll the list of applications until you find WD Drive Utilities or simply activate the Search field and type in "WD Drive Utilities". The WD Drive Utilities application will be found automatically. Notice that after you click WD Drive Utilities in the list of programs, the following information about the application is made available to you:

• Star rating (in the lower left corner). This explains the opinion other users have about WD Drive Utilities, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Opinions by other users - Click on the Read reviews button.
• Details about the app you wish to remove, by pressing the Properties button.

For instance you can see that for WD Drive Utilities:

• The web site of the program is: http://support.wdc.com
• The uninstall string is: C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{2a9b37ff-fcda-4176-8d0a-890e8447a114}\WDDriveUtilitiesSetup.exe

7. Press the Uninstall button. A window asking you to confirm will show up. accept the uninstall by pressing Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will remove WD Drive Utilities.


8. After uninstalling WD Drive Utilities, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run an additional cleanup. Click Next to proceed with the cleanup. All the items of WD Drive Utilities which have been left behind will be detected and you will be able to delete them. By uninstalling WD Drive Utilities with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no registry items, files or directories are left behind on your computer.

Your PC will remain clean, speedy and able to take on new tasks.

Disclaimer

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