WD Drive Utilities

How to uninstall WD Drive Utilities from your PC

You can find below details on how to uninstall WD Drive Utilities for Windows. It was created 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 data about WD Drive Utilities on Western Digital Technologies, Inc.'s website. WD Drive Utilities is commonly installed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\WD Utilities directory, but this location may vary a lot depending on the user's option when installing the application. MsiExec.exe /X{71B8842B-5C0D-4221-968D-8750D4F3DF63} is the full command line if you want to remove WD Drive Utilities. WD Drive Utilities's primary file takes around 6.29 MB (6598016 bytes) and is called WDDriveUtilities.exe.

The following executable files are incorporated in WD Drive Utilities. They take 13.39 MB (14039200 bytes) on disk.

• WD Quick Formatter.exe (4.90 MB)
• WDDriveUtilities.exe (6.29 MB)
• WDDriveUtilitiesHelper.exe (2.20 MB)

The current web page applies to WD Drive Utilities version 1.4.1.51 only. 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
• 2.1.2.167
• 2.0.0.54
• 2.1.0.130
• 2.0.0.44
• 2.0.0.76
• 1.1.0.51
• 2.0.0.25
• 1.3.0.16
• 1.4.3.13
• 1.3.0.17
• 2.1.2.146
• 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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Quite a few files, folders and registry data can not be uninstalled when you are trying to remove WD Drive Utilities from your PC.

Files remaining:

• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\CLR_v4.0_32\UsageLogs\Install WD Drive Utilities.exe.log
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\WD_Drive_Utilities_20190708104034.log
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\WD_Drive_Utilities_20190708104034_0_DriveUtilitiesSetup.log
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\WD_Drive_Utilities_20190708104100.log
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\WD_Drive_Utilities_20190708104105.log
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\WD_Drive_Utilities_20190708110646.log
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\WD_Drive_Utilities_20190708110646_0_DriveUtilitiesSetup.log
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\WD_Drive_Utilities_20190708110913.log
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\WD_Drive_Utilities_20190708110913_0_DriveUtilitiesSetup.log
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\WD Discovery\plugins\com.wdc.plugin.catalog\current\assets\apps\drive_utilities.png
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\WD Discovery\plugins\com.wdc.plugin.catalog\current\assets\apps\drive_utilities.svg
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\WD Discovery\plugins\com.wdc.plugin.catalog\current\assets\apps\drive_utilities_disabled.svg
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\WD Discovery\plugins\com.wdc.plugin.catalog\current\assets\apps\drive_utilities_hover.png
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\WD Discovery\plugins\com.wdc.plugin.catalog\current\assets\apps\drive_utilities_hover.svg

Registry that is not removed:

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Western Digital\WD Drive Utilities
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\B2488B17D0C5122469D878054D3FFD36
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Western Digital\WD Drive Utilities

Use regedit.exe to remove the following additional registry values from the Windows Registry:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\B2488B17D0C5122469D878054D3FFD36\ProductName

How to delete WD Drive Utilities with Advanced Uninstaller PRO

WD Drive Utilities is a program by the software company Western Digital Technologies, Inc.. Some people try to remove it. Sometimes this can be difficult because removing this manually requires some advanced knowledge regarding removing Windows programs manually. The best SIMPLE approach to remove WD Drive Utilities is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Here is how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO on your Windows system, install it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is an efficient uninstaller and general tool to clean your Windows system.

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

2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. It's recommended to take your time to admire the program's interface and wealth of tools available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very useful PC management program.

3. Click on the General Tools button


4. Press the Uninstall Programs feature


5. A list of the programs installed on the computer will appear

6. Navigate the list of programs until you locate WD Drive Utilities or simply click the Search field and type in "WD Drive Utilities". The WD Drive Utilities app will be found automatically. Notice that when you select WD Drive Utilities in the list of programs, the following information about the program is available to you:

• Star rating (in the lower left corner). This tells you the opinion other users have about WD Drive Utilities, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Reviews by other users - Click on the Read reviews button.
• Technical information about the app you wish to remove, by pressing 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{71B8842B-5C0D-4221-968D-8750D4F3DF63}

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


8. After removing WD Drive Utilities, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run a cleanup. Click Next to perform the cleanup. All the items of WD Drive Utilities which have been left behind will be found and you will be able to delete them. By uninstalling WD Drive Utilities using Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no Windows registry entries, files or folders 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 PC, nor are we saying that WD Drive Utilities by Western Digital Technologies, Inc. is not a good application. This text only contains detailed instructions on how to remove WD Drive Utilities supposing you want to. The information above contains registry and disk entries that Advanced Uninstaller PRO discovered and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.