Ok... I have waited for that little yellow shield with the exclamation point
in it to appear again, but it has not. I think it only appears when you
need to update and not before. I do not have any other yellow thing down there
other than my spy sweeper icon. But I did disable my msconfig thing in this
WinPatrol just to see if that will keep the ctfmon.exe thing from
appearing... But when I had the little Scotty in WinPatrol 'kill' the ctfmon.exe, what
happens then. is I keep getting repeated messages asking if I want it to stay
off --- from Win Patrol. So dont know which is the most nuisance, that
thing asking me if I wanna keep it off constantly, or to let it run. I think it's
terrible that MS puts stuff on here that you can't take off. If they wanna
run it, let it run where we can't see it. But I still think it has
something to do with Explorer 7 cause it apparently has something to do with all
those updates.. especially since I do not have Office installed on this computer.
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Hi, Harriet,
<<<<there is a little yellow thing down there that looks like a 'shield'
with
an exclamation point in the center of it. I remember the Dell tech telling
me some time ago to watch that cause it will tell me about some Windows
updates that need attention and to look at what the instructions are>>>>>
NO. that is not the one. it could be for "auto updates" OR "security centre"
<<<<< cause I have it set on 'inform me but
don't download my updates.' Now.. perhaps if I had it set on automatic
updates, then that yellow thing would not be there, huh? And I would not
have that ctfmon.exe thing in my start up, you think?>>>
again NO. I also have set "'inform me but don't download my updates." becuse
i want to know what is getting inside my system.
<<<< Now.. in my control panel I clicked on the date and time icon and
here's
what I have for tabs... Date & Time, Time Zone, Internet Time.>>>>.
it seems you have your "control panel" set to "classic view" with 32 icons
(one of them being "date and time") if you look further down you will find an
icon of a "desk top globe" ... regional & language. ( this is the one i was
referring to)
now if you look on the LEFT HAND PANE you will see "switch to category view"
clicking this will bring up the same control panel with only 10 icons.
sort of merged "classic view". here you will find date,time,language &
regional options all combined into one
<<< but as long as it is not spyware, then I won't worry about it.>>>
NO it is not spyware as long as it resides ONLY IN C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32.
YOU CAN FIND OUT IF IT IS ANYWHERE ELSE BY INVOKING THE "SEARCH" AND TYPING
ctfmon.exe. it will list all the places.
so... all above only of academic interest UNLESS you are curious HOW...
without MS OFFICE, REGISTRY ENTRY, LANGUAGE BAR .. ctfmon.exe on startup.
good day---Venkat
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