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Old April 8th, 2006, 08:59 AM
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Question etmon.exe / ctfmon.exe
Hi.
I recently purchased a new PC and running in the background all the time are 'etmon.exe' and 'ctfmon.exe'.
Can you tell me what these are and if it is necessary to have them running in the background all the time.
I like to have as little as possible running so can I stop them at start up via 'run/msconfig'?
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Old April 8th, 2006, 10:01 AM
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ctfmon and etmon are both legitimate but unnecessary processes. However, there are better things you could look at disabling, rather than legitimate processes.
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Old April 8th, 2006, 07:02 PM
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ctfmon and etmon are both legitimate but unnecessary processes. However, there are better things you could look at disabling, rather than legitimate processes.
Ok, no prob - will leave as is. But what are they exactly?

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Old April 8th, 2006, 07:30 PM
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see here for the ctfmon

cant find the other one at the min
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Old April 8th, 2006, 07:31 PM
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etmon.exe HERE
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Old April 9th, 2006, 12:30 PM
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Thanks for your help. I will leave them alone.
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Old April 9th, 2006, 01:22 PM
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