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What is WD QuickView?
QuickView is a management utility app. It provides My Cloud drive management as well as one-click access to checking the status of your MyCloud as well and lets you quickly access the My Cloud’s configuration settings.
What is WD Discovery on my computer?
The WD Discovery application, a collection of drive management tools such as WD Security and WD Backup, can be installed from your My Passport drive. The WD Discovery application can be installed from your drive.
What is WD Drive Utilities?
WD Drive Utilities software allows you to configure, manage, and diagnose your WD drive. With WD Drive Utilities, you can. Run drive diagnostics. Manage RAID configuration (For RAID supported models) Erase and format drive.
What is WD SmartWare?
WD unveiled their new SmartWare Pro software that enables users to easily back up files to any USB external hard drive or the cloud using their personal Dropbox. The software also provides users with the ability to restore or retrieve backed-up data. The WD SmartWare Pro software can be setup in two different settings.
What does the WD Discovery app do?
WD Discovery allows you to download and keep up to date other WD Apps such as WD Security app, WD Backup and WD Drive Utilities, and learn about software from WD partners.
Can I use WD external hard drive without software?
You don’t require pre-installed software for re-formatting the drive. Hope this information helps. Hey there Ackman, As Anusha explained pretty well, you are free to use external drives such as the WD My Passport Ultra the same way you would use an internal drive in an external enclosure.
Do I need WD Discovery on my Mac?
Answer: A: Answer: A: Historically the WD software has not worked well on Macs. It is not needed to use the drive for Time Machine backups.
How do I remove an icon from my computer?
Hold down the Command (⌘) key. Hover your mouse cursor over the icon you want to remove. Holding down the left mouse button, drag the icon out of the menu bar and onto the desktop. Let go of the left mouse button.
How do I move icons to the left of the menu bar?
Hover your mouse cursor over the icon you want to move. Holding down the left mouse button, drag the icon into your preferred position on the menu bar. Other icons will step aside to make space for it. Let go of the left mouse button.
How do I use small icons in quick launch?
To Use Large or Small Icons for Items in Quick Launch. A) Unlock the taskbar. B) Right click or press and hold on the dotted separator line just to the left of the Quick Launch toolbar, click/tap on View, and click/tap on Large Icons or Small Icons to check or uncheck them for how you want them set.
How do I remove a shortcut from Quick Launch?
To Remove a shortcut from Quick Launch, you can right click or press and hold on the shortcut from either the Quick Launch toolbar or folder location, and click/tap on Delete. The Switch between windows shortcut in Quick Launch no longer works in Windows 10, so you can safely remove it from Quick Launch if you like.