ELAN Touchpad

A way to uninstall ELAN Touchpad from your system

This page contains thorough information on how to uninstall ELAN Touchpad for Windows. The Windows version was developed by ELAN Microelectronic Corp.. Further information on ELAN Microelectronic Corp. can be found here. Please open www.emc.com.tw if you want to read more on ELAN Touchpad on ELAN Microelectronic Corp.'s page. The program is usually placed in the C:\Program Files\Elantech directory (same installation drive as Windows). The full uninstall command line for ELAN Touchpad is C:\Program Files\Elantech\ETDUn_inst.exe. ETDCtrl.exe is the programs's main file and it takes approximately 2.16 MB (2267128 bytes) on disk.

ELAN Touchpad is composed of the following executables which occupy 18.28 MB (19166144 bytes) on disk:

• ETDAniConf.exe (7.82 MB)
• ETDCtrl.exe (2.16 MB)
• ETDCtrlHelper.exe (1.57 MB)
• ETDDeviceInformation.exe (1.67 MB)
• ETDService.exe (92.99 KB)
• ETDTouch.exe (112.99 KB)
• ETDUn_inst.exe (1.71 MB)
• VolumeControl.exe (3.15 MB)

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The information on this page is only about version 12.8.6.7 of ELAN Touchpad. You can find here a few links to other ELAN Touchpad versions:

• 18.2.30.3
• 12.8.6.6
• 12.8.6.5
• 12.8.10.1

When planning to uninstall ELAN Touchpad you should check if the following data is left behind on your PC.

Registry that is not uninstalled:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Elantech

A way to remove ELAN Touchpad from your PC using Advanced Uninstaller PRO

ELAN Touchpad is a program by ELAN Microelectronic Corp.. Sometimes, people decide to remove this application. Sometimes this can be difficult because removing this manually requires some skill related to Windows program uninstallation. The best QUICK procedure to remove ELAN Touchpad is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take the following steps on how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO on your Windows PC, add it. This is a good step because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very useful uninstaller and all around utility to optimize your Windows system.

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• go to Download Link
• download the setup by clicking on the DOWNLOAD button
• set up Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take some time to get familiar with the program's design and number of features available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very useful system utility.

3. Click on the General Tools category


4. Click on the Uninstall Programs feature


5. A list of the programs existing on the PC will be shown to you

6. Scroll the list of programs until you find ELAN Touchpad or simply click the Search field and type in "ELAN Touchpad". If it exists on your system the ELAN Touchpad app will be found automatically. After you select ELAN Touchpad in the list of apps, the following data about the program is shown to you:

• Safety rating (in the lower left corner). This tells you the opinion other users have about ELAN Touchpad, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Opinions by other users - Click on the Read reviews button.
• Technical information about the application you wish to uninstall, by clicking on the Properties button.

For example you can see that for ELAN Touchpad:

• The publisher is: www.emc.com.tw
• The uninstall string is: C:\Program Files\Elantech\ETDUn_inst.exe

7. Press the Uninstall button. A confirmation dialog will show up. accept the uninstall by pressing Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will remove ELAN Touchpad.


8. After removing ELAN Touchpad, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will offer to run an additional cleanup. Click Next to go ahead with the cleanup. All the items that belong ELAN Touchpad that have been left behind will be detected and you will be asked if you want to delete them. By uninstalling ELAN Touchpad with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no Windows registry items, files or directories are left behind on your PC.

Your Windows system will remain clean, speedy and ready to serve you properly.

Disclaimer

The text above is not a piece of advice to remove ELAN Touchpad by ELAN Microelectronic Corp. from your computer, nor are we saying that ELAN Touchpad by ELAN Microelectronic Corp. is not a good software application. This page only contains detailed info on how to remove ELAN Touchpad in case you decide this is what you want to do. The information above contains registry and disk entries that Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.