WDFME.exe
WD File Management Engine by Western Digital Technologies (Signed)
Overview
wdfme.exe has 2 known versions, the most recent one is 1, 5, 1, 2. It is started as a Windows Service called 'WDFME' with the name 'WDFMEService' and described as “WD SmartWare File Management Engine”. . In addition, it is run under the context of the SYSTEM account with extensive privileges (the administrator accounts have the same privileges). The average file size is about 1.7 MB. It is an authenticode code-signed executable issued to Western Digital Technologies by the certification authority VeriSign. Numerous variations of wdfme.exe have been installed with both WD SmartWare and SES Driver. This is a .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) assembly. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is about 0.0004% including both foreground and background operations, the average private memory consumption is about 687.92 MB with the maximum memory reaching around 783.61 MB. Addionally, typically read and write I/O disk operations is about 2.11 MB per minute for reads and 1.76 MB per minute for writes.
 Details
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| File name: | wdfme.exe |
| Publisher: | Western Digital |
| Product name: | WD File Management Engine |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\western digital\wd smartware\wdfme.exe |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Western Digital Technologies |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Monday, October 11, 2010 |
| Expiration date: | Friday, September 20, 2013 |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | WDFMEService |
| Display name: | WDFME |
| Description: | “WD SmartWare File Management Engine” |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess |
Programs installed in
(Note, the programs listed below are for all versions of WD File Management Engine.)
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Western Digital Technologies, Inc. |
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Western Digital also ships WD Smartware with many of its drives for use as backup drives. This software backs up all Documents, Pictures, Movies, Emails, and more on the drive, and continually checks ...
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Western Digital Technologies, Inc. |
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The SES Device Driver is the software driver for the Western Digital SES. It is a computer program used to communicate from the Windows PC OS to the SES device. This software is required in most cases...
Behaviors
(Note, the behaviors below are for all versions of wdfme.exe, select a unique version for details.)
Services
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
All file variations of wdfme.exe
