WD Drive Utilities

A guide to uninstall WD Drive Utilities from your system

This web page contains detailed information on how to remove WD Drive Utilities for Windows. It is made by Western Digital Technologies, Inc.. Additional info about Western Digital Technologies, Inc. can be read here. Further information about WD Drive Utilities can be found at http://support.wdc.com. The application is usually placed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\WD Utilities folder. Take into account that this location can differ being determined by the user's preference. The full uninstall command line for WD Drive Utilities is C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{1993af7f-1716-4c45-96d9-addd25881464}\WDDriveUtilitiesSetup.exe. WDDriveUtilities.exe is the programs's main file and it takes around 6.29 MB (6600192 bytes) on disk.

WD Drive Utilities contains of the executables below. They take 13.26 MB (13901824 bytes) on disk.

• WD Quick Formatter.exe (4.81 MB)
• WDDriveUtilities.exe (6.29 MB)
• WDDriveUtilitiesHelper.exe (2.15 MB)

The current page applies to WD Drive Utilities version 2.1.0.130 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
• 2.1.2.167
• 2.0.0.54
• 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
• 2.1.0.142
• 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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Numerous files, folders and registry data can not be deleted when you want to remove WD Drive Utilities from your computer.

Directories left on disk:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\Western Digital\WD Utilities

Generally the following registry data will not be removed:

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Western Digital\WD Drive Utilities

How to remove WD Drive Utilities using Advanced Uninstaller PRO

WD Drive Utilities is a program marketed by Western Digital Technologies, Inc.. Sometimes, users decide to erase this program. Sometimes this is hard because deleting this manually takes some know-how related to Windows internal functioning. One of the best QUICK way 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 PC, install it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is an efficient uninstaller and general utility to clean your PC.

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• download the setup by pressing the green DOWNLOAD button
• install Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take some time to get familiar with Advanced Uninstaller PRO's interface and wealth of features available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very good system optimizer.

3. Press the General Tools button


4. Press the Uninstall Programs feature


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

6. Navigate the list of programs until you find WD Drive Utilities or simply click the Search feature and type in "WD Drive Utilities". If it exists on your system the WD Drive Utilities application will be found automatically. Notice that when you select WD Drive Utilities in the list of programs, the following data about the program is shown to you:

• Star rating (in the lower left corner). The star rating explains the opinion other users have about WD Drive Utilities, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Opinions by other users - Press the Read reviews button.
• Details about the program you want to uninstall, by pressing the Properties button.

For instance you can see that for WD Drive Utilities:

• The publisher is: http://support.wdc.com
• The uninstall string is: C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{1993af7f-1716-4c45-96d9-addd25881464}\WDDriveUtilitiesSetup.exe

7. Click the Uninstall button. A window asking you to confirm will appear. Confirm the uninstall by pressing Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will then uninstall WD Drive Utilities.


8. After removing WD Drive Utilities, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run an additional cleanup. Click Next to perform the cleanup. All the items of WD Drive Utilities which have been left behind will be detected 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 registry items, files or directories are left behind on your PC.

Your computer will remain clean, speedy and ready to take on new tasks.

Disclaimer

The text above is not a piece of advice to remove WD Drive Utilities by Western Digital Technologies, Inc. from your computer, we are not saying that WD Drive Utilities by Western Digital Technologies, Inc. is not a good application. This text simply contains detailed instructions on how to remove WD Drive Utilities in case you want to. Here you can find registry and disk entries that other software left behind and Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' PCs.