Should I block it?

No, this file is 100% safe to run.

Additional versions

10.0.0.104	9.26%
10.0.0.104	1.85%
10.0.0.95	1.85%
10.0.0.68	5.56%
10.0.0.62	5.56%
10.0.0.49	1.85%
10.0.0.11	1.85%
10, 0, 0, 3	1.85%
8, 2, 0, 18	9.26%
8, 2, 0, 18	1.85%
8, 2, 0, 18	16.67%
8, 2, 0, 17	18.52%
8, 2, 0, 17	5.56%
8, 2, 0, 16	1.85%
8, 2, 0, 16	16.67%

Relationships

Child process

etdctrlhelper.exe (ELAN Smart-Pad by ELAN Microelectronics Corporation)

Related files

ETDCtrl.exe

ELAN Smart-Pad by ELAN Microelectronics Corporation (Signed)

Remove ETDCtrl.exe

Version:	10.0.0.11
MD5:	ae9152f4841cfa9ae5abbf5046d4991f
SHA1:	470ece5effab11590f75898a128c00350200240c

What is ETDCtrl.exe?

ETD Control Center is part of the ELAN Smart-Pad, a type of multi-finger touch pad input device for laptops.

About ETDCtrl.exe (from ELAN Microelectronics Corporation)

“Smart pad (multi-finger touch pad) is a kind of NB input device. It's different from traditional touchpad, because it can support multi-finger gesture to let user interact with their notebook system m”

Overview

etdctrl.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges. It is set to be start when the PC boots and any user logs into Windows (added to the Run registry key for the all users under the local machine). This is typically installed with the program ETDWare PS/2-X64 10.0.5.4_WHQL published by ELAN Microelectronic Corp.. The assembly utilizes the .NET run-time framework (which is required to be installed on the PC). The file is digitally signed by ELAN Microelectronics Corporation which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).

Details

File name:	etdctrl.exe
Publisher:	ELAN Microelectronics Corp.
Product name:	ELAN Smart-Pad
Description:	ETD Control Center
Typical file path:	C:\Program Files\elantech\etdctrl.exe
File version:	10.0.0.11
Product version:	10, 0, 0, 12
Size:	2.65 MB (2,777,896 bytes)
Certificate
Issued to:	ELAN Microelectronics Corporation
Authority (CA):	VeriSign
Effective date:	Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Expiration date:	Friday, November 7, 2014
Digital DNA
File packed:	No
Code language:	Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET
.NET CLR:	Yes
.NET NGENed:	No

More details

Programs

The following program will install this file

ETDWare PS/2-X64 _WHQL

ELAN Microelectronic Corp.

6% remove

ETDWare PS/2-x64 is the device driver installed for an Elan Microelectronics Touch Pad. ELAN's Smart Click-Pad eliminates the need of physical buttons since the entire touchpad functions as buttons. User can click almost anywhere on the touchpad to simulate the mouse left or right button click. It's different from traditional touchpad, because it can support multi-finger gesture to let the user interact with their laptop more intuitivel...

Behaviors

Startup files (all users) run

Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'

'ETDCtrl' → C:\Program Files\Elantech\ETDCtrl.exe

Resource utilization

(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)

Averages

CPU
Total CPU:	0.00011416%	0.028634%
Kernel CPU:	0.00003140%	0.013761%
User CPU:	0.00008276%	0.014873%
Kernel CPU time:	32,214 ms/min	100,923,805ms/min
CPU cycles:	1,161,163/sec	17,470,203/sec
Memory
Private memory:	5.34 MB	21.59 MB
Private (maximum):	13.58 MB
Private (minimum):	3 MB
Non-paged memory:	5.34 MB	21.59 MB
Virtual memory:	104.47 MB	140.96 MB
Virtual memory (peak):	111.38 MB	169.69 MB
Working set:	4.56 MB	18.61 MB
Working set (peak):	13.66 MB	37.95 MB
Page faults:	219,852/min	2,039/min
I/O
I/O read transfer:	0 Bytes/sec	1.02 MB/min
I/O read operations:	1/sec	343/min
I/O other transfer:	175.25 KB/sec	448.09 KB/min
I/O other operations:	40/sec	1,671/min
Resource allocations
Threads:	9	12
Handles:	286	600
GUI GDI count:	177	103
GUI GDI peak:	179	142
GUI USER count:	90	49
GUI USER peak:	94	71

Process properties

Integrety level:	Medium
Platform:	64-bit
Command line:	"C:\Program Files\elantech\etdctrl.exe"
Owner:	User

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