Dave-H

OK, I completely uninstalled everything again, and did a new install directly from the unmodified 11.4.14.1 driver, only substituting the modified INF file and the bare bones setup.ini. Of course the modified INF intrinsically doesn't install items we found weren't needed, but reverting to the original INF the driver won't work at all of course. That was fine, and I then merged in jaclaz's three registry files. Running ETDAniConf.exe (from outside the Elantech folder) produced the "Corner Tap Zone" option as before. This time the corners were a reasonable size to start with and didn't have to be dragged out (they appeared straight away as in the picture). As you can see, the graphic does respond if I tap the corners of the touchpad, but still nothing happens, the options are not triggered. I know that "Start Menu" for instance, can work as it does work if it's set as a right click option say.

I'll let you (both) know!

You mean completely uninstall it and reinstall it again, just using 11.4.31.1 with your modified INF and the bare bones setup.ini? That won't show the tap zones at all without some modification surely?

ETDSimpluUI was crashing again when I tried to use the Two-finger Tapping option. It came good again when the settings were reset, but importing your registry files seems to be causing this.

No, nothing happens. When I run ETDAniconf I do now have the "Corner Tap Zone" option again. It shows tiny corner icons on the graphic which can be dragged to make them larger. They still don't seem to do anything though.

I imported that registry file and the "corner tapping" function has now disappeared!

Stopping and starting ETDctrl.exe didn't fix it, nor did a reboot. All the registry settings are as you specified. Still getting the "full" Elan control panel ETDmcpl on the Mouse Properties "Option" button. Incidentally, this probably has nothing to do with this, but the machine is now hanging for a very long time on "Loading your personal settings" when it's started up. It loads eventually, but it's taking far longer than it used to, and I've not knowingly changed anything recently that's not part of this investigation.

ETDSimpleUI is now working properly again after I reset all the settings thanks. Interesting all those extra settings in ETDAniconf (which is what I referred to in the past as the "simple Elan control panel"), although some of them (like the "Corner Tap Zone") don't seem to actually work. The animated graphic shows the corner taps, but nothing actually happens, whatever function is selected. I'm not quite sure what the distinction is between "Clicking" and "Button". As RainyShadow discovered some time ago, my cheap and nasty touchpad actually only has one physical "button" switch, and what it does depends on where your finger is on the touchpad when it's "pushed". I suspect those functions are more for touchpads with two actual physical buttons. The "Options" button on the Mouse Properties tab still seems to bring up the ETDmcpl control panel BTW, not the ETDAniconf control panel.

That's interesting to know, thanks. I've only had Office 2010 installed for a year or two, so I'd never noticed that.

Seems better now, but there is still an exception error if I try to use the "Two Finger Tapping" option in ETDSimpleUI.

I suspect that the reason that the extra settings now revealed in ETDmcpl.dll, like the magnifier, were hidden originally was by design as the necessary files, like ETDMag.exe, were not included in the version of the driver that we're basing our custom driver on. Those keys do indeed do what you say with ETDSimpleUI, but I can't see what the "four finger swipe" actually does! More worrying is that I'm starting to get .NET error messages when I run ETDSimpleUI now.

Yes, there are certainly additional setting in ETDmcpl.dll. I tried one of them, the magnifier, but it didn't seem to work. There are no additional settings in ETDSimpleUI as far as I can see, certainly no four finger options. Again after a reboot all the settings in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Elantech\SmartpadDisplay have reverted to what they were before.

The second item on two finger tapping on ETDmcpl.dll is "Middle Button", not Context Menu. "Pop-up Menu" is the first item. One finger and three finger taps work as intended, but two finger tapping doesn't seem to do anything, regardless of what it's set to. Strange, because I thought two finger tapping was working from ETDmcpl.dll yesterday! Now, it works only if enabled in ETDSimpleUI, which is very odd. That UI only gives the option of "Pop-up Menu" or "Middle Button", but once it's enabled there, the other options in ETDmcpl.dll then work! Setting HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Elantech\SmartPad\Tap_Enable to "7" doesn't seem to change the behaviour at all, single tap is still active, even after a reboot, in fact after a reboot the setting has reverted back to "1" again.

Yes, me too! I wonder if there will be more on offer next week on the actual "Patch Tuesday"?

I don't know why it says size=0, it seems to actually be OK. The file you need is "mso-x-none_852c8f4c16a121d662c070374553e1ffe159779a.cab". The MSP update file is in there.

Two finger tapping works if it's enabled in the Elan control panel, but not if it's only enabled in ETDSimpleUI. Three finger tapping does work from the Elan control panel too if it's enabled to be seen, but there's no equivalent option in ETDSimpleUI.

So much work, thanks again! The ETDSimpleUI also has a separate two finger tapping setting, which in the Elan control panel is combined with the single finger tapping. The two finger tapping switch in ETDSimpleUI doesn't seem to do anything, so that could well be another registry discrepancy between the two control panels.

No sign of that on my system.

Jaclaz, that works brilliantly! I hadn't actually realised that the "tap to click" function was the only one that had the settings discrepancy between the registry settings changed by the control panels. Thank goodness for that or it would have been a very much bigger patching job! I've had the two control panels open side by side and compared what each one does, and the settings made in ETDSimpleUI do indeed seem to be now all mirrored in the Elan control panel. The ETDSimpleUI does seem to be missing some options that are in the Elan control panel, such as "Swipe Page". Also the ETDSimpleUI has two separate settings for one finger scrolling and two finger scrolling, which the Elan control panel does not seem to have (it references two finger scrolling only). There is also an "ETDSimpleUI_Win8", and I thought that might include the "Swipe Page" function, but it doesn't seem to.

One Office 2010 update offered today (a week earlier than expected) KB4484377. Seems to be fine.

Yes, as I described in the post linked below, the key that the control panels change does seem to differ. AsusUI and ETDSimpleUI change the "Tap_One_Finger_Enable" key, and the Elan UI changes the "TapEnable" key. I think that's always the case, but which one of those keys is "live" changes depending on the registry settings. It's frankly a dreadful confusing mess! Off to bed now, I will do those tests tomorrow if you still want me to. Cheers, Dave.

Here you go. ElantechHKCU.reg ElantechHKLM.reg

Sorry I misunderstood, there was no animation of course if the driver wasn't working!

Well yes of course, I was only making the point that when available the different icon choices have always worked, even when the driver itself actually isn't working! I'm afraid that all the driver settings registry information on my system is in HKCU as well, there is nothing in HKLM.

Just out of interest, I tried zipping up all the files needed for an installation with just the Elan control panel, so no AVI video files or extra control panel files, and it came out at about 10MB, which doesn't seem too bad. That included ETDUI.cpl to add access to the Elan control panel in the Windows Control Panel. Also all of the multi-lingual licence files. One problem with not archiving this completely and offering it as a new complete file source is that we are at the moment depending on that Lenovo driver being available to download. If that ever gets pulled the new driver will be useless as that's the only source of the 11.4.14.1 driver files that it depends on, as far as we know.