Guest Boria Condrey Posted August 25, 2007 Posted August 25, 2007 I think this file is corrupt or something. Everytime I load IE 7, I get an error message. "CTF loader has encountered a problem and needs to close" How can I find out what the problem is and how to fix it?
Guest Kelly Posted August 25, 2007 Posted August 25, 2007 Re: Ctfmon.exe Hi Boria, 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? -- All the Best, Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP) Taskbar Repair Tool Plus! http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm "Boria Condrey" <boria@winchesterwoodworks.com> wrote in message news:eafDXyz5HHA.3940@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >I think this file is corrupt or something. Everytime I load IE 7, I get an >error message. "CTF loader has encountered a problem and needs to close" >How can I find out what the problem is and how to fix it? >
Guest David Starr Posted August 26, 2007 Posted August 26, 2007 Re: Ctfmon.exe Kelly wrote: > Hi Boria, > > 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? > > Kelly, I have been trying to kill of ctfmon as an active process for some time. I went settings->controlpanel->regional & Language Settings tab Languages, and unchecked "Install file for complex script and right-to-left languages" and the "install files for East Asian Languages" check boxes. Then I did tab Languages, pushbutton "Details" Tab "Advanced" and checked the System Configuration "Turn off advanced text services" checkbox. ctfmon did go away for a few days and came back to life. I then used Process Explorer to search web for ctfmon. Discovered an MS knowledge base article about disabling ctfmon. [ http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282599] Followed instructions in article to do regsvr32.exe /u msimtf.dll and regsvr32.exe /u msctf.dll. No luck. Searched registry and found a “run” ctfmon.exe key. Removed same. Rebooted. Came up with NO ctfmon. After a minute or two ctfmon reappeared as a running process. Re inspected the registry. The “run” key had reappeared. Some nice program that runs after boot is reloading ctfmon AND putting the run ctfmon.exe key back into the registry. Could it be skype? Attempts to kill ctfmon by zapping the file out of c:/windows/system32 failed. Some helpful system preserver program replaced the zapped ctfmon.exe. Further research found a MS Knowledge base article suggesting removal of English-Spanish and English-French translation features from Word. Did same with Settings->ControlPanel->Add&Remove Programs->MS Office Change. Ctfmon is still loading and sucking up ram. If anyone knows how to kill this fellow, I'm ready to listen. David Starr
Guest Doug W. Posted August 26, 2007 Posted August 26, 2007 Re: Ctfmon.exe CTFMON.EXE is so tiny that it practically uses NO RAM. Better to worry about Bush and company and the world situation than this pgm. Jeez. - Doug W. - "David Starr" <mittersill@roadrunner.com> wrote in message news:46d198b5$0$16442$4c368faf@roadrunner.com... > Kelly wrote: >> Hi Boria, >> >> 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? >> >> > Kelly, > I have been trying to kill of ctfmon as an active process > for some time. > I went settings->controlpanel->regional & Language Settings > tab Languages, and unchecked "Install file for complex script > and right-to-left languages" and the "install files for East > Asian Languages" check boxes. Then I did tab Languages, > pushbutton "Details" Tab "Advanced" and checked the System > Configuration "Turn off advanced text services" checkbox. > ctfmon did go away for a few days and came back to life. I > then used Process Explorer to search web for ctfmon. > Discovered an MS knowledge base article about disabling > ctfmon. [ http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282599] Followed > instructions in article to do regsvr32.exe /u msimtf.dll and > regsvr32.exe /u msctf.dll. No luck. Searched registry and > found a “run” ctfmon.exe key. Removed same. Rebooted. Came > up with NO ctfmon. After a minute or two ctfmon reappeared as > a running process. Re inspected the registry. The “run” key > had reappeared. Some nice program that runs after boot is > reloading ctfmon AND putting the run ctfmon.exe key back into > the registry. Could it be skype? > Attempts to kill ctfmon by zapping the file out of > c:/windows/system32 failed. Some helpful system preserver > program replaced the zapped ctfmon.exe. Further research > found a MS Knowledge base article suggesting removal of > English-Spanish and English-French translation features from > Word. Did same with Settings->ControlPanel->Add&Remove > Programs->MS Office Change. > > Ctfmon is still loading and sucking up ram. If anyone knows > how to kill this fellow, I'm ready to listen. > > David Starr
Guest Kelly Posted August 26, 2007 Posted August 26, 2007 Re: Ctfmon.exe Hi David, Unlike the Alternative User Input features, Ctfmon.exe is a system component that cannot be uninstalled. For more information about disabling Ctfmon.exe, refer to the "Can I remove the Ctfmon.exe file?" section earlier in this article. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282599 -- All the Best, Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP) Taskbar Repair Tool Plus! http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm "David Starr" <mittersill@roadrunner.com> wrote in message news:46d198b5$0$16442$4c368faf@roadrunner.com... > Kelly wrote: >> Hi Boria, >> >> 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? >> >> > Kelly, > I have been trying to kill of ctfmon as an active process for some time. > I went settings->controlpanel->regional & Language Settings tab > Languages, and unchecked "Install file for complex script and > right-to-left languages" and the "install files for East Asian Languages" > check boxes. Then I did tab Languages, pushbutton "Details" Tab > "Advanced" and checked the System Configuration "Turn off advanced text > services" checkbox. > ctfmon did go away for a few days and came back to life. I then used > Process Explorer to search web for ctfmon. Discovered an MS knowledge > base article about disabling ctfmon. [ > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282599] Followed instructions in article > to do regsvr32.exe /u msimtf.dll and regsvr32.exe /u msctf.dll. No luck. > Searched registry and found a “run” ctfmon.exe key. Removed same. > Rebooted. Came up with NO ctfmon. After a minute or two ctfmon > reappeared as a running process. Re inspected the registry. The “run” > key had reappeared. Some nice program that runs after boot is reloading > ctfmon AND putting the run ctfmon.exe key back into the registry. Could it > be skype? > Attempts to kill ctfmon by zapping the file out of c:/windows/system32 > failed. Some helpful system preserver program replaced the zapped > ctfmon.exe. Further research found a MS Knowledge base article suggesting > removal of English-Spanish and English-French translation features from > Word. Did same with Settings->ControlPanel->Add&Remove Programs->MS > Office Change. > > Ctfmon is still loading and sucking up ram. If anyone knows how to kill > this fellow, I'm ready to listen. > > David Starr
Guest Kelly Posted August 26, 2007 Posted August 26, 2007 Re: Ctfmon.exe :o) What Amount of System Resources Is Used When Ctfmon.exe Is Running? Ctfmon.exe uses little of the system resources if Advanced Text Services are not running. Advanced Text Services are those input technologies (speech recognition, handwriting recognition, and Input Method Editors) that are being controlled by Ctfmon.exe via a TIP. -- All the Best, Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP) Taskbar Repair Tool Plus! http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm "Doug W." <stand@attention> wrote in message news:%23x%23Fn4$5HHA.1212@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > CTFMON.EXE is so tiny that it practically uses NO RAM. Better to worry > about Bush and company and the world situation than this pgm. Jeez. > - > Doug W. > - > > "David Starr" <mittersill@roadrunner.com> wrote in message > news:46d198b5$0$16442$4c368faf@roadrunner.com... >> Kelly wrote: >>> Hi Boria, >>> >>> 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? >>> >>> >> Kelly, >> I have been trying to kill of ctfmon as an active process for some >> time. >> I went settings->controlpanel->regional & Language Settings tab >> Languages, and unchecked "Install file for complex script and >> right-to-left languages" and the "install files for East Asian Languages" >> check boxes. Then I did tab Languages, pushbutton "Details" Tab >> "Advanced" and checked the System Configuration "Turn off advanced text >> services" checkbox. >> ctfmon did go away for a few days and came back to life. I then used >> Process Explorer to search web for ctfmon. Discovered an MS knowledge >> base article about disabling ctfmon. [ >> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282599] Followed instructions in article >> to do regsvr32.exe /u msimtf.dll and regsvr32.exe /u msctf.dll. No luck. >> Searched registry and found a “run” ctfmon.exe key. Removed same. >> Rebooted. Came up with NO ctfmon. After a minute or two ctfmon >> reappeared as a running process. Re inspected the registry. The “run” >> key had reappeared. Some nice program that runs after boot is reloading >> ctfmon AND putting the run ctfmon.exe key back into the registry. Could >> it be skype? >> Attempts to kill ctfmon by zapping the file out of c:/windows/system32 >> failed. Some helpful system preserver program replaced the zapped >> ctfmon.exe. Further research found a MS Knowledge base article >> suggesting removal of English-Spanish and English-French translation >> features from Word. Did same with Settings->ControlPanel->Add&Remove >> Programs->MS Office Change. >> >> Ctfmon is still loading and sucking up ram. If anyone knows how to >> kill this fellow, I'm ready to listen. >> >> David Starr >
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