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When I shut down windows XP Pro, CTFMON.exe doesn't close and hangs shutdown. just started doing this.

If you don't need it, I'd suggest following the link in the article and disabling it.

First I want to thank you for your really suitable article. I was interested to the "ctfmon.exe" file because it causes me some troubles using a specific application... I tried to uninstall it using the Microsoft procedure (I just have Office XP installed with Windows ME), but It seems I guessed wrong... The file is already installed and starts on Windows inizializing. How can I definitively uninstall and delete this file? Does exist a possibility that this file may be used by another application (i.e. Norton Utilities)? Thank you for your attention.

I have the same problem and it started recently.
I tried deleting the actual executable file, it comes back, took it out of registry, it comes back, disabled in MSCONFIG and took the entry off the startup list. It came back. Ran 3 different spyware removal programs, it just keeps coming back. Since this recently started happening, and I never had this problem before, I do believe something in my machine is using it, something my machine picked up recently.

Same thing, and yes it does seem to be causing a lot of problems. So far unable to find any explanation for the nonremoval issue, system unstable since this started running.

http://www.processlibrary.com/directory/files/ctfmon/

Really, its easy to get rid of.

Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Languages TAB -> Details BUTTON -> Language Bar BUTTON (under "Preferences")

Select the "Turn off advanced text services" check box.

I tried to delete the ctfmon.exe by uninstalling the shared office components from the office installed on my mellinium but the ctfmon.exe keeps coming back
help!

Did you look at the knowledgebase article referenced in my article above? It has several answers to scenarios such as you describe.

Thanks for the info Leo. I have finally been able to disable ctfmon.exe which was causing Adwatch to report it as a new registry change every time XP booted. The problem only started after installing SP2, so I guess Bill Gates and Co. decided we need it turned on. I'm not using Office XP or the language bar, so I'm sure I don't need it turned on.

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