CFTMON.EXE

Have you got MS Office installed? If so you may have noticed a little program in the task manager, under processes called cftmon.exe.

Have you ever asked yourself....what the hell is it or...... have you removed it only to find it's back again.....
It is a relatively easy removal and it will stay gone, just follow these steps.

FYI - This pesky little program is related to speech recognition in MS Office.

- Just open up Add/Remove programs from Control panel.
- locate MS Office and click on Change
- Click on Add/Remove features (and check mark "advanced customizations of features")

- Expand Excel tab
- Click on "text to speech" and select "Not Available"

- Expand "Office Shared Features"
- Click on "Alternative User Input" and select "Not Available" (this should remove both Speech and Handwriting)

- Expand "Proofing Tools" under "Office Shared Features" and select under both French and Spanish "English - (French/Spanish) Translation "Not Available"

- and then click on "Update"

When Update is complete

- Click on Start-Run and type in "regsvr32 /u msctf.dll" (without quotes) and hit ok/enter

- and again - Click on Start-Run and type in regedit32.exe and hit ok/enter. [I used regedit.exe...not regedit32, and it worked fine.]

When the program is open, search for

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Run\

Once located - right click on cftmon.exe and delete entry.

you will have to repeat these steps for each user on the computer.

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