From my old blog, November 22, 2006. No longer maintained.

Frequently asked questions about Ctfmon.exe

The original is on archive.org.

I have been using Visual Studio 2005 for over eight (8) months now.  I have noticed peaks and valleys in performance.  It seems that the best performance comes from using a different harddrive for the project files, not the same physical harddrive that VS2005 is installed on.  Second, kill this ctfmon process using they link below.  It runs even if you opt out of the language bar.   

Link to Frequently asked questions about Ctfmon.exe

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