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Ridding yourself of CTFMON.EXE
Name: [fry] Date: June 10, 2001 at 02:27:00 Pacific
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I thought this might be helpful to some people since I could barely find any information on what this file was.
Apparently when you install microphone/voice recognition support in Office XP it adds this file to startup. I tried removing it from the add/remove programs on the XP CD with no luck. The only way I got rid of this annoying "feature" was by searching for "ctfmon.exe" in the registry and finding it under a 'run' folder. Deleted it, and the problem disappeared at next reboot.
Summary: I have Win2000 on my new computer. The CTFMON.EXE file seems to conflict with my OneWrite Accounting Program, giving me error messages occassionaly. I have to diable the file in order not to have pro...