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WDDriveService.exe
WDDriveService.exe by Western Digital Technologies (Signed)
| Version: | 1.6.0.6 |
| MD5: | 25e37b2f96f106b77b9c8868efb14834 |
| SHA1: | bf95777a823a1bee94ba99bdb9e1392cf9e21b0b |
| SHA256: | 9959a16a9306142d047fb45869bb1c5e414f5dcf4ecbd774e8870aff367d29bb |
Overview
wddriveservice.exe runs as a service under the name WDDriveService (WDDriveService) within the local user context. The file is digitally signed by Western Digital Technologies which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | wddriveservice.exe |
| Publisher: | Western Digital |
| Product name: | WDDriveService.exe |
| Description: | WD Drive Service |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\western digital\wd drive manager\wddriveservice.exe |
| File version: | 1.6.0.6 |
| Size: | 242.43 KB (248,248 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Western Digital Technologies |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Friday, December 10, 2010 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Services
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
- WDDriveService
- 'WDDriveService' (WD Drive Manager)
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00002340% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00001799% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000540% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 1,367,036,763 ms/min | |
| Context switches: | 16/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 11.4 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 15.07 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 9.71 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 11.4 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 77.2 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 81.33 MB | |
| Working set: | 10.32 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 16.68 MB | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 18 | |
| Handles: | 322 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\western digital\wd drive manager\wddriveservice.exe" |
| Owner: | User |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | WDDriveService |
| Display name: | WDDriveService |
| Description: | “Provides discovery of WD Drives” |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess |
| Parent process: | services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft) |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
34.78% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
26.09% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
13.04% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
8.70% |
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| Windows 8 |
8.70% |
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| Windows 7 Professional |
8.70% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 65.22% of WDDriveService.exe.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| ASUS |
40.00% |
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| Acer |
16.00% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
16.00% |
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| Dell |
16.00% |
|
| Sony |
8.00% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
4.00% |
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