CTFMON?

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What is the program ctfmon.exe (located in \windows\system32), which Windows
often installs as a startup program? What does it do? Is it important to
keep running in the background? Ok to disable its auto-startup?
 
Hi,

CTFMon is involved with the language/alternative input services in Office
XP. CTFMON.exe will continue to put itself back into MSConfig when you run
the Office XP apps as long as the Text Services and Speech applets in the
Control Panel are enabled. Not required if you don't need these features.

OFFXP: What Is CTFMON and What Does It Do?
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q282599
 
Kelly said:
Hi,

CTFMon is involved with the language/alternative input services in Office
XP. CTFMON.exe will continue to put itself back into MSConfig when you run
the Office XP apps as long as the Text Services and Speech applets in the
Control Panel are enabled. Not required if you don't need these features.
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You know what would really be brilliant? When you open taskmanager it should
show in addition to the other information about processes, what should also be
displayed is what program in what folder actually started it... something that
would let me know what is running/owns the process...

That would be really wonderful..
 
David said:
Use msinfo32 then.
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Cool. Thanks for the tip.. though a few of them says "no info" or some such..
just would be nice to consolidate it, also when you install items, instead of
putting dlls and such willy nilly in windows folders, keep them segregated in
their own folders..

have a good one
 
The path is how it was started. No path then it was started without one.

For the last 9 years it's been verbotten to install dlls into system folders. But not enforced so Win 3.1 programs can install.
 
Kelly said:
Hi,

CTFMon is involved with the language/alternative input services in Office
XP. CTFMON.exe will continue to put itself back into MSConfig when you run
the Office XP apps as long as the Text Services and Speech applets in the
Control Panel are enabled. Not required if you don't need these features.

OFFXP: What Is CTFMON and What Does It Do?
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q282599
Click to expand...

Thanks for the info, Kelly.

I have Office 2003, not XP. Does Office 2003 use this program as well?

I do use the U.S. International keyboard, so that I can put in an á or ü if
I write something in Spanish or German. I generally use that all the time
though, so I don't need quick keyboard switching or something. I doubt use
of that keyboard itself requires ctfmon. I'm not familiar with those applets
in Control Panel, not even sure if they appear in mine, I'll take a look.
 
Under the Applications tab, select an application. Right-click and choose Go
To Process. The Task Manager will now open the Processes tab and select the
actual process (EXE) that runs the application.
 
Hi Kelly - FWIW, the removal procedure in 282599 is fairly convoluted, and
what I've done instead is to turn off all of the Text Services stuff and
just re-name ctfmon.exe to ctfmon.exeold. Had it this way for a while, and
so far ctfmon has stayed gone, and I've experienced no difficulties in
either O2000 or O2003 (haven't tried w/OXP). As always, AT YOUR OWN RISK,
but of course you can always change it back if it turns out to be a problem
in OXP (or elsewhere).

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Kelly - FWIW, just thinking about it, I'm pretty sure that I also did
unregister msimtf.dll as called out in the KB.

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