The file getmodule30.exe is a process that belongs to software My Book Device Driver. My Book is a hard drive from Western Digital (WD) that must be connected to the computer via USB port. Western Digital Corporation (WD) is the second largest manufacturer of computer hard disk drives after Seagate, and has a long history in the electronics industry as an integrated circuit maker and a storage products company. The process getmodule30.exe is an executable file that supports the driver for the My Book storage device from WD. My Book is a series of external hard drives produced by WD, which is designed to look like a standard black hardbound book. My Book drives originally feature vent holes on the top that spell out a message in Morse code. The series of My Book include the Essential Edition drive that has an intelligent PowerManagement feature that stops the drive platters after ten minutes of inactivity rather than the usual expedient of slowing them down, and turns on and off with the computer that it is attached to.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. getmodule30.exe. is used by My Book Device Driver, If you shut down getmodule30.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop getmodule30.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is My Book Device Driver, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed getmodule30.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as My Book Device Driver, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if getmodule30.exe. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that getmodule30.exe, belongs to, in this case My Book Device Driver