WD Drive Utilities

A way to uninstall WD Drive Utilities from your system

This web page contains complete information on how to remove WD Drive Utilities for Windows. It was coded for Windows by Western Digital Technologies, Inc.. You can read more on Western Digital Technologies, Inc. or check for application updates here. Click on http://support.wdc.com to get more facts about WD Drive Utilities on Western Digital Technologies, Inc.'s website. The application is usually placed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\WD Utilities folder (same installation drive as Windows). WD Drive Utilities's complete uninstall command line is MsiExec.exe /X{7AD7AEDF-38E7-444C-BFEF-AFA7EC96CA5F}. WDDriveUtilities.exe is the WD Drive Utilities's primary executable file and it occupies around 6.29 MB (6600192 bytes) on disk.

WD Drive Utilities is composed of the following executables which occupy 13.27 MB (13914624 bytes) on disk:

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

This web page is about WD Drive Utilities version 2.1.3.304 alone. You can find here a few links to other WD Drive Utilities releases:

• 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
• 2.1.4.308
• 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
• 2.1.4.358
• 1.4.3.37
• 1.3.0.18
• 2.0.0.71
• 1.3.2.2

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Following the uninstall process, the application leaves leftovers on the PC. Some of these are listed below.

Registry that is not cleaned:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\FDEA7DA77E83C444FBFEFA7ACE69ACF5
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{e35a6927-4bc7-4421-afcf-552be3cc9163}
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Western Digital\WD Drive Utilities

Additional registry values that are not removed:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\FDEA7DA77E83C444FBFEFA7ACE69ACF5\ProductName

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

WD Drive Utilities is an application offered by Western Digital Technologies, Inc.. Sometimes, computer users want to erase this application. This can be easier said than done because removing this manually requires some experience related to removing Windows programs manually. The best SIMPLE procedure to erase 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 PC, install it. This is a good step because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very potent uninstaller and all around tool to clean your computer.

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• go to Download Link
• download the program by clicking on the DOWNLOAD button
• install Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take some time to get familiar with Advanced Uninstaller PRO's design and wealth of functions available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a powerful Windows tool.

3. Press the General Tools button


4. Press the Uninstall Programs feature


5. All the programs existing on your PC will appear

6. Scroll the list of programs until you locate WD Drive Utilities or simply click the Search feature and type in "WD Drive Utilities". If it is installed on your PC the WD Drive Utilities application will be found automatically. Notice that after you click WD Drive Utilities in the list of apps, the following data regarding the program is available to you:

• Safety rating (in the lower left corner). This tells you the opinion other users have regarding WD Drive Utilities, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Reviews by other users - Press the Read reviews button.
• Technical information regarding the app you wish to remove, by clicking on the Properties button.

For example you can see that for WD Drive Utilities:

• The publisher is: http://support.wdc.com
• The uninstall string is: MsiExec.exe /X{7AD7AEDF-38E7-444C-BFEF-AFA7EC96CA5F}

7. Press the Uninstall button. A window asking you to confirm will show up. Confirm the removal by clicking Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will uninstall WD Drive Utilities.


8. After uninstalling WD Drive Utilities, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will offer to run a cleanup. Click Next to start 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 removing WD Drive Utilities using Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no Windows registry items, files or directories are left behind on your disk.

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

Disclaimer

This page is not a recommendation 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 software application. This text simply 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 Advanced Uninstaller PRO discovered and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.