WD Drive Utilities

How to uninstall WD Drive Utilities from your system

This page contains complete information on how to remove WD Drive Utilities for Windows. It is produced by Western Digital Technologies, Inc.. Take a look here where you can find out more on Western Digital Technologies, Inc.. Please follow http://support.wdc.com if you want to read more on WD Drive Utilities on Western Digital Technologies, Inc.'s page. Usually the WD Drive Utilities program is to be found in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\WD Utilities folder, depending on the user's option during install. You can uninstall WD Drive Utilities by clicking on the Start menu of Windows and pasting the command line MsiExec.exe /X{45BDDAE8-E34D-46D7-AC23-39C567A719B9}. Note that you might get a notification for admin rights. WDDriveUtilities.exe is the programs's main file and it takes approximately 6.29 MB (6600192 bytes) on disk.

The following executables are installed beside WD Drive Utilities. They take about 13.27 MB (13913600 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 2.1.2.167 alone. Click on the links below for other WD Drive Utilities versions:

• 1.0.6.3
• 1.4.1.39
• 2.0.0.48
• 2.0.0.63
• 2.1.0.25
• 2.0.0.54
• 2.1.0.130
• 2.0.0.44
• 2.0.0.76
• 2.1.3.304
• 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. Part_A few of these are listed below.

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

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Western Digital\WD Drive Utilities
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\8EADDB54D43E7D64CA32935C767A919B
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Western Digital\WD Drive Utilities

Additional registry values that are not cleaned:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\8EADDB54D43E7D64CA32935C767A919B\ProductName

A way to uninstall 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.. Sometimes, people want to uninstall this application. Sometimes this can be hard because doing this manually takes some knowledge related to PCs. One of the best QUICK manner to uninstall 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 on your system, install it. This is a good step because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is one of the best uninstaller and all around tool to maximize the performance of your computer.

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

2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. It's recommended to take some time to admire the program's design and wealth of functions available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a powerful Windows tool.

3. Click on the General Tools category


4. Activate the Uninstall Programs tool


5. All the programs existing on your computer will appear

6. Scroll the list of programs until you locate WD Drive Utilities or simply activate the Search feature and type in "WD Drive Utilities". If it is installed on your PC the WD Drive Utilities application will be found very quickly. After you click WD Drive Utilities in the list of apps, some information regarding the application is available to you:

• Safety rating (in the lower left corner). The star rating explains the opinion other people have regarding WD Drive Utilities, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Opinions by other people - Click on the Read reviews button.
• Technical information regarding the app you want to uninstall, by clicking on the Properties button.

For instance you can see that for WD Drive Utilities:

• The web site of the application is: http://support.wdc.com
• The uninstall string is: MsiExec.exe /X{45BDDAE8-E34D-46D7-AC23-39C567A719B9}

7. Press the Uninstall button. A confirmation page will appear. accept the uninstall by clicking the Uninstall button. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will automatically uninstall WD Drive Utilities.


8. After uninstalling WD Drive Utilities, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run a cleanup. Press Next to go ahead with the cleanup. All the items that belong WD Drive Utilities which have been left behind will be found and you will be asked if you want to delete them. By uninstalling WD Drive Utilities with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no Windows registry entries, files or directories are left behind on your computer.

Your Windows computer will remain clean, speedy and able to run without errors or problems.

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 PC. This text simply contains detailed info on how to remove WD Drive Utilities in case 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' computers.