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can you stop ctfmon.exe at startup

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by pejsr, 2004/09/19.

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  1. 2004/09/19
    pejsr

    pejsr Inactive Thread Starter

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    Spybot tells me that CTFMON.EXE in my startup screen is malware,spyware,or resource hog and is not needed. Is this true? If I uncheck it in spybot /tools/startup it duplicates and checks itself off. It also does the same in msconfig . Is it safe to rename or delete this item?

    :D Thanx Peter
     
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  2. 2004/09/19
    Steve R Jones

    Steve R Jones SuperGeek Staff

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    "CTFMon comes with Microsoft Office XP and Windows XP "“ it activates the Alternative User Input Text Input Processor (TIP) and the Microsoft Office XP Language Bar. As long as the Text Services & Speech are enabled in the Control Panel, this program will force itself back into your list of background programs.

    Recommendation :
    Disable "Text Services & Speech" in the Control Panel if you are not using them. Then, disable CTFMon using Startup Manager. (Note that if you use Word, Excel or PowerPoint to write in different languages, eg. English and Arabic, then you will be using "Text Services & Speech" facilities). "

    http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist_c.htm
     
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