WD Drive Utilities

A guide to uninstall WD Drive Utilities from your computer

WD Drive Utilities is a computer program. This page is comprised of details on how to remove it from your PC. The Windows release was developed by Western Digital Technologies, Inc.. More data about Western Digital Technologies, Inc. can be seen here. Click on http://support.wdc.com to get more info about WD Drive Utilities on Western Digital Technologies, Inc.'s website. WD Drive Utilities is frequently installed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\WD Utilities folder, however this location can vary a lot depending on the user's choice when installing the program. You can uninstall WD Drive Utilities by clicking on the Start menu of Windows and pasting the command line C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{fd68bfab-3ed3-4c2b-a478-0e8742e15dab}\WDDriveUtilitiesSetup.exe. Note that you might be prompted for administrator rights. WDDriveUtilities.exe is the programs's main file and it takes about 6.29 MB (6600192 bytes) on disk.

The following executables are installed beside WD Drive Utilities. They occupy 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 2.1.0.142 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
• 2.1.2.146
• 1.0.5.7
• 1.4.2.11
• 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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A considerable amount of files, folders and Windows registry data will not be deleted when you remove WD Drive Utilities from your computer.

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

• C:\UserNames\UserName\AppData\Local\Temp\WD_Drive_Utilities_20240214210959.log
• C:\UserNames\UserName\AppData\Local\Temp\WD_Drive_Utilities_20240214210959_000_DriveUtilitiesSetup.log

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

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\73A29BDFD4906914F8B857DAE9F37166
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{fd68bfab-3ed3-4c2b-a478-0e8742e15dab}
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Western Digital\WD Drive Utilities

Open regedit.exe to remove the registry values below from the Windows Registry:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\73A29BDFD4906914F8B857DAE9F37166\ProductName

How to remove WD Drive Utilities from your PC with the help of Advanced Uninstaller PRO

WD Drive Utilities is an application marketed by the software company Western Digital Technologies, Inc.. Sometimes, people try to uninstall this program. Sometimes this is troublesome because removing this manually takes some experience regarding Windows internal functioning. The best SIMPLE practice to uninstall WD Drive Utilities is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Here are some detailed instructions about how to do this:





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

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

2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. It's recommended to take some time to get familiar with the program's design and number of tools available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very good PC management program.

3. Click on the General Tools button


4. Press the Uninstall Programs button


5. All the applications existing on the computer will be made available to you

6. Navigate the list of applications until you find WD Drive Utilities or simply click the Search field and type in "WD Drive Utilities". The WD Drive Utilities program will be found automatically. After you select WD Drive Utilities in the list of applications, the following information regarding the program is made available to you:

• Star rating (in the left lower corner). The star rating explains the opinion other people have regarding WD Drive Utilities, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Reviews by other people - Click on the Read reviews button.
• Details regarding the program you wish to uninstall, by clicking on 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\{fd68bfab-3ed3-4c2b-a478-0e8742e15dab}\WDDriveUtilitiesSetup.exe

7. Press the Uninstall button. A confirmation window will show up. accept the removal by clicking Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will then remove WD Drive Utilities.


8. After uninstalling WD Drive Utilities, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run an additional cleanup. Press Next to perform the cleanup. All the items that belong WD Drive Utilities that have been left behind will be detected and you will be able to delete them. By removing WD Drive Utilities with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no Windows registry entries, files or folders are left behind on your disk.

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

Disclaimer

The text above is not a piece of advice to uninstall 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 simply contains detailed instructions on how to uninstall WD Drive Utilities supposing you decide this is what you want to do. The information above contains registry and disk entries that other software left behind and Advanced Uninstaller PRO discovered and classified as "leftovers" on other users' PCs.