About 3 seconds delay after (some) external programs quit.

[HolgerK]

Frequently asked questions about Ctfmon.exe

Offtopic:

Another fine example of bad web-design. I have to use IE to see the page completely. With FF2 the lower part is missing. Thank you, Microsoft!


Greetings

Sven

No need to use IE!
Ctrl+Click "summary", and you can read the whole article in a new tab.

Kind regards
Holger

[Googlhupf]

No need to use IE!
Ctrl+Click "summary", and you can read the whole article in a new tab.

Ooooh... Sweet!


Greets

Sven

[ghisler(Author)]

2Googlhupf
Try turning off
- watch dirs
- icons
- the button bar

Do you still get this problem?

[Googlhupf]

2Googlhupf
Try turning off
- watch dirs
- icons
- the button bar

Do you still get this problem?

Unfortunately I have eliminated the problem already. And starting ctfmon manually doesn't do the trick. But as for the button bar: I don't have any.


Greets

Sven

[ghisler(Author)]

Unfortunately I have eliminated the problem already.

So how did you eliminate it?

[Dominus]

Probably by following the steps given by MS in the FAQ above. Same as I did. So no way to really test that.
Probably doing a "Regsvr32.exe Msctf.dll" and "Regsvr32.exe msimtf.dll" and then executing ctfmon might do the trick to reproduce it.

[Googlhupf]

So how did you eliminate it?

The Microsoft way. I unregged the two DLLs.

But as always with M$, undoing stuff doesn't return things to the way they were before. I re-regged the DLLs and changed the settings back to what they were, but now the problem doesn't occur anymore.

I'll leave it that way now. I will post again, should the delay return.


Have a nice day.

Sven

[raeubi]

Same problem here!

I used solution describing M$ KB article.
Now the problem does not occure.

Thanks for investigations above.

[ND]

For those of you who have ctfmon.exe without M$Office:
for me, the installation of the new IE7 caused the language-bar to activate.

I didn't have it active previously (I only have en-US), so I immediately proceeded to disable it completely (I found a M$ article about changing some registry keys, in addition to changing some settings and unregistering some .dll). This means ctfmon.exe didn't get a chance to cause problems on my PC.

I also heard about "alternate input" and "language bar" being activated after installing non-M$ "office" (such as Adobe products, and even OpenOffice.org), but with those you can usually disable this feature pretty easily.

Another fine example of bad web-design. I have to use IE to see the page completely. With FF2 the lower part is missing. Thank you, Microsoft!

In Opera the lower part is missing too! Obviously MS is not interested in feedback from other browser users...

Well, M$ is not particularly big in "user support", one of the most important reasons why people...

hate Microsoft

I wouldn't go that far, but sometimes their lack of support is irritating. Fortunately the Internet is large and I always found an answer to my problems elsewhere.

[Lefteous]

Well as this problem seems to be related to ctfmon.exe it should be moved to another forum.

[Clo]

[mod]No TC-bug, apparently. Moved to «Behaviour which will not be changed…»
Clo, moderator[/mod]

[mhe]

Thanks a bunch for this thread.

I got those random freezes when exiting zoomplayer, worked fine with media player classic though, so i was searching around for zoomplayer bugs and it lead me nowhere.

However, i noticed the freezes didnt come to explorer, only totalcmd, so i did a search on this forum aswell.

Killing ctfmon.exe did the trick! (starting ctfmon again confirms this is the culprit)