If I understand correctly, it is the lack of ctfmon.exe that is causing your
problem. Here is a link to Microsoft's explanation of ctfmon:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282599
 
This is part of the MS Office suite. If you still have Office installed, it
is possible that the registry entry to run ctfmon gets entered by MS Office
even when you uncheck it in AutoRuns. The way to fix this would then be by
reinstalling Office, since this seems to be the problem. You might try
simply copying the ctfmon.exe file directly to the system32 folder to fix
the missing file problem. A big question would be: why did the file get
deleted in the first place?

AutoRuns is just one of several ways to monitor and control your startups.
Running msconfig is another way.

Good luck, and let us know if I misunderstood your situation.

Peter
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I downloaded that AutoRun thing, but for the life of me, I cannot  find the
one that has this ctfmon.exe on it.  The whole  thing says,  
C:\Windows\System32\ctfmon.exe\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run.   And
this is the one that 
is aways comes back on even after I have unchecked  it .
 
Now there is one that says, MsConfig in the AutoRun thing, (along  with my
spysweeper and anti-virus thing),  But if I  uncheck McConfig, will I be
able to get to it by going to Start, Run,  typing in msconfig then on to my
start up tab.  Cause I always am looking  in my start up to see if things
have changed 
in there for some reason or  other.   Or do I uncheck the MsConfig one?   
Harriet

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