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WDDriveService.exe
WDDriveService.exe by Western Digital Technologies (Signed)
| Version: | 2.0.0.18 |
| MD5: | 74610a05087fc64150ecce327e09ac5b |
| SHA1: | d73368abc468da3f791e338b4b2b70063413d485 |
| SHA256: | b88cd0a17e5021f36d03bdbce67cb60231a06a2459313112cd21238866625bdb |
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 Technologies, Inc. |
| Product name: | WDDriveService.exe |
| Description: | WD Drive Service |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\western digital\wd drive manager\wddriveservice.exe |
| File version: | 2.0.0.18 |
| Size: | 264.36 KB (270,704 bytes) |
| Build date: | 8/14/2013 10:57 AM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Western Digital Technologies |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Monday, October 11, 2010 |
| Expiration date: | Friday, September 20, 2013 |
| Digital DNA |
| 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)
Network connections
[UDP] listens on port 4802
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00146302% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00107807% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00038495% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 28,951,456 ms/min | |
| Context switches: | 12/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 11.01 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 13.86 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 12.12 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 11.01 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 62.97 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 68.42 MB | |
| Working set: | 12.74 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 15.02 MB | |
| Page faults: | 147,513/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 4.46 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 226/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 75.7 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 1,312/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 17 | |
| Handles: | 287 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 4 | |
| GUI USER count: | 9 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | Undefined |
| 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) |
Threads
Averages
| ole32.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.03317137% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.02517400% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00799737% | |
| Context switches: | 2/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.24 MB | |
| WDDriveService.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.01956741% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00409428% | |
| User CPU: | 0.01547313% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,419,162/sec | |
| Context switches: | 1/sec | |
| Memory: | 860 KB | |
| wow64.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.01164125% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00685923% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00478202% | |
| CPU cycles: | 922,912/sec | |
| Memory: | 276 KB | |
| advapi32.dll (Advanced Windows 32 Base API by Microsoft) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00177094% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00126067% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00051027% | |
| Memory: | 620 KB | |
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00096301% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00085420% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00010881% | |
| Memory: | 712 KB | |
Common loaded modules
These are modules that are typiclaly loaded within the context of this process.
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
24.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
16.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro |
12.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
12.00% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
12.00% |
|
| Windows 8 |
8.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Enterprise |
8.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
4.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
4.00% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 45.83% of WDDriveService.exe.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
25.81% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
22.58% |
|
| Toshiba |
19.35% |
|
| Acer |
16.13% |
|
| Lenovo |
12.90% |
|
| American Megatrends |
3.23% |
|
