cauldbum
(regular)
Wed Feb 27 2008 11:27 AM
What is cft mon exe

Have unticked a lot in Cool Stuff Startup and it has helped, but 2 items have "Windows System 3 cft mon exe", can anyone tell me if I can untick these and what are they. Thanks

bungler
(regular)
Wed Feb 27 2008 11:35 AM
Re: What is cft mon exe

cftmon.exe is a part of the Microsoft Office suite and handles speech input for this product. This program is a non-essential process, but should not be terminated unless suspected to be causing problems.

BurrWalnut
(Chippendaler)
Wed Feb 27 2008 01:48 PM
Re: What is cft mon exe

Cauldbum and Bungler

You have both cited CFTMON (capitals for clarity) in your posts, I hope you mean CTFMON? If the file is named CFTMON it is probably a Trojan.

CTFMON is a process used by Microsoft Office for the Language Bar and Speech & Handwriting recognition. Even if you don’t have MS Office it will be present with IE7 for IE7's Language bar.

If you don't need the functionality, stop it from starting up by going to Start > Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Languages Tab > Details > Advanced tab then put a tick in ‘Turn off advanced text services’ and hit Apply. This removes ctfmon.exe from the running processes and from starting up on boot up. However, it sometimes reappears after an IE7 update.


cauldbum
(regular)
Wed Feb 27 2008 09:07 PM
Re: What is cft mon exe

Yes you are correct it is CTF, if it's no prob I will just leave it ticked. There are two of them one upper and one lower case ! Thanks Cauldbum.

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