Internat created in System Tray by IE6

[Guest]

Although my default keyboard language and layout is British English I
thought there may be occasions when a US English layout may be useful.
I therefore added the US keyboard layout but retained the UK as
default.
Subsequently I reverted to the single British English language and
layout only.
Unfortunately ever since then Internet Explorer insists on putting the
Internat icon into the system tray although there are no choices to be
made. The icon does not appear at boot up and it can be removed using
Ctrl Alt Del and End Task but it reappears again as soon as Internet
Explorer is used.
On occasions the internat (En) icon short menu suggests I could select
a simplified chinese layout although this is not loaded except in
Add/Remove Programs for browsing.

Does anyone have any suggestions for getting rid of this irritant
please?
The OS is Windows 98 and the IE6 version is SP1 with q313829.

 

[H Leboeuf]

Start/Settings/Control Panel/Keyboard/Language.
In the bottom unselect the Indicator on task bar.

 

[Guest]

Start/Settings/Control Panel/Keyboard/Language.
In the bottom unselect the Indicator on task bar.

This option already unchecked and grayed out as only one entry in
dialogue.

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

Add a language so you can check and uncheck the option Henri mentioned.
Then remove the second language. BTW I just checked on XP and that
wasn't necessary on it. Adding a language was necessary to activate the
Language bar but once activated the Preferences: button was still available
even after I removed the second language.

Alternatively use tools such as msconfig or autostart (freeware from
SysInternals) to find out if anything is being started that way.

If it turns out to be ctfmon.exe refer to instructions here:

<title>KB282599 - OFFXP: What Is CTFMON and What Does It Do?</title>

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the suggestions
I tried adding English (United States) and unchecked the "Enable
indicator on the task bar" box. I then also re-booted.
The system tray then included En(British), Simplified Chinese IME and
En (United States). Simplified Chinese is not shown in the language
dialogue so cannot be removed but appears spontaneously in the System
Tray. I then deleted the English (United States) which immediately
grayed out the unchecked "Enable indicator on the Task Bar" box. I
then removed Internat by using Ctrl-Alt-Del, End Task which gives
response Not Responding or similar and continued to end task. The
icon will then disappear from the system tray.
I have since discovered that the icon is not only created in the
system tray by Internet Explorer but can also appear just from a dial
up connection. When doing an auto update of SpyBot which did not use
internet explorer the Internat item was again re-created.
I remain baffled by this unexpected development.

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

Thanks for the suggestions
I tried adding English (United States) and unchecked the "Enable
indicator on the task bar" box. I then also re-booted.
The system tray then included En(British), Simplified Chinese IME and
En (United States). Simplified Chinese is not shown in the language
dialogue so cannot be removed but appears spontaneously in the System
Tray. I then deleted the English (United States) which immediately
grayed out the unchecked "Enable indicator on the Task Bar" box.

Was it still unchecked after your reboot?

I then removed Internat by using Ctrl-Alt-Del, End Task which gives
response Not Responding or similar and continued to end task.

That would only remove the current instance.

Did you try the msconfig/autostart approach that I mentioned?


I don't have internat.exe. Perhaps you are getting it from
scaime.cab in IE6sp1 (e.g. assuming sc stands for Simplified Chinese.)

< http://support.microsoft.com/servicedesks/fileversion/moreinfo.asp?Id=188999 >


There is some information about the registry values internat.exe
uses in W2K in this article

<title>KB263201 - Default Processes in Windows 2000</title>

Otherwise you could use RegMon (freeware from SysInternals)
to try to identify why it is still being started.)


You would probably get more help from someone who at least has
the same program and UI; so I suggest you try a newsgroup which
specializes in your OS or one where more posters would be familiar
with the IME you have.


Good luck

Robert
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