If you'll allow me to drift a little farther OT, "the How-To Geek" page Khai mentioned above also has an article telling how to disable 'ctfmon.exe' in Windows.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/what-is-ctfmonexe-and-why-is-it-running/

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Quote:
"Ctfmon is the Microsoft process that controls Alternative User Input and the Office Language bar. It's how you can control the computer via speech or a pen tablet, or using the onscreen keyboard inputs for asian languages."

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It can slow or hang the system, and sounds unnecessary for most folks, so I'm considering killing it.    The replies there indicate that  only folks using multiple language keyboard fonts were really using it - as far as I could tell.

Q: Anyone aware of any overlooked reason why disabling ctfmon.exe might be a bad idea?