gHacks technology news » ctfmon.exe http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:38:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Dud Is A Program That Does Nothing http://www.ghacks.net/2009/06/22/dud-is-a-program-that-does-nothing/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/06/22/dud-is-a-program-that-does-nothing/#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:23:43 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=13780 microsoft windowsIt feels rather strange reviewing a software program that does absolutely nothing. If you start Dud it will immediately terminate its process using 60 Kilobytes of computer memory in the short meantime. The question that is probably in your mind right now is about the usefulness of a program like Dud. Why would someone want to run a software program that terminates a second after execution?

The answer is simply: Dud has been designed by the software developer to replace annoying executables and programs that are started by the Windows operating system or applications. Mentioned are files like helpctr.exe or stobject.dll which are not useful to most users or necessary at all.

The developer has created a second program called Replacer which can be used to replace protected files in operating systems such as Windows XP or Windows 2000. It can for example also be used to replace the annoying googleupdate.exe, ctfmon.exe and basically any other annoying process that gets automatically started by the operating system or software programs.

It might make more sense in certain situations to find a way to disable the process or service so that it does not get started at all but this is sometimes not possible. That’s where a program like Dud comes in very handy.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/06/22/dud-is-a-program-that-does-nothing/feed/ 11 How to remove ctfmon.exe http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/22/how-to-remove-ctfmonexe/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/22/how-to-remove-ctfmonexe/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:25:54 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/22/how-to-remove-ctfmonexe/ You might have noticed a process with the name ctfmon.exe when opening the task manager wondering what it was doing and if it was malicious or harmful in any way. A quick search on the web revealed that it is a Windows process for advanced text services. You furthermore might have noticed that this process activates itself again even if you use msconfig to disable it from starting with Windows.

Before I’m going to explain how to remove ctfmon.exe I’m going to explain why you should not remove it. You should not remove ctfmon.exe if you use language schemes, translations, East Asian languages, speech or text recognition and other alternative input technologies.

Most users do not need it and you can free about 8 Megabytes of Ram if you remove the file. To do that you have two possibilities. User who do not want to change settings in the Control Panel could deactivate it by using a software called Ctfmon Remover which removes the process with the click of the mouse button.

If you are one of those users who would like to know where to remove ctfmon.exe in Windows you do the following. Open the Control Panel, click on Regional and Language Options, on the Language tab there, then on the Details button under Text Services and Input Languages and there on the Advanced tab again.

Check the Turn off advanced text services box and ctfmon.exe will not be loaded during system startup anymore. You can activate it the same way by unchecking the box.

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