I find that this same behavior happens on my other computers that have a previous WD SSD Dashboard version v2.5.1.0 already, whether I download WD SSD Dashboard version 3.0.2.37 of “WesternDigitalSSDDashboardSetup.exe” from Western Digital website, or whether I use the WD SSD Dashboard version v2.5.1.0 automatic update feature. I also noticed in taskmgr.exe, that “dashboardsetup.exe” process is (rapidly and endlessly) stopping and restarting (changing PID #s). (This sample is over the course of a few seconds)… Soon my hard drive filled up because a process “dashboardsetup.exe” had made (literally) thousands of copies of “WesternDigitalSSDDashboardSetup.exe” (or in some cases “DashboardSetup.exe”) in my system’s temp folder in unique folders with names like: Now, I know it was not downloading at all… When I first saw this today, I thought it was downloading the update, so I left it running for a few hours (I have a slow connection). This typically indicates that a new process is spawning. EXCEPT that the cursor blue spinning circle shows up and disappears rapidly, repeatedly, and very quickly. When I run “WesternDigitalSSDDashboardSetup.exe” as administrator, nothing visible happens. I downloaded the latest WD SSD Dashboard version 3.0.2.37 of “WesternDigitalSSDDashboardSetup.exe” from Western Digital website. I am running several computers with windows 10 pro 圆4 v1909 (and one with Windows 10 v2004). However, I enabled uac and ipv6 again, and the problem still happens. I disable ipv6 with a registry setting, I disable uac with a registry setting, I change the default system and user temp folders to something easier to browse to. Mine does not.įirst, some unusual things about my computers: I’ve read several articles about WD SSD Dashboard not installing, but most of them seemed to throw an error message back to the user.
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