Hi there,
This is for all of you who are annoyed by ctfmon.exe, for whatever reason (maybe it is crashing etc.), and want to get rif of it.
It is really simple: just download CTFMON-Remover from Gerhard Schlager’s Website, get the English or German File from the bottom of the Website, unzip it and execute. To restore, just re-run CTFMON-Remover. You might have to run CTFMON-Remover after an Office Update or something similar.
Afterwards, you won’t have problems with ctfmon anymore.
I recently created a Windows XP SP3 slipstreamed install using nLite. There was an option to reduce the delay when the XP start men ushows up after clicking the start button. I set it to zero, but now I found out that I liked the old way with 400 ms more. The value is stored in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\MenuShowDelay, given in milliseconds. Default is 400. Just change it to your likings.
Source: http://blogs.tech-recipes.com/tipmonkies/2005/07/23/changing-xp-start-menu-delay/
If you cannot get RDP connected through Internet Explorer 7 after installing Service Pack 3 (SP3) on Windows XP because the ActiveX control is disabled by default in the Service Pack read this.
The Terminal Services can be re-enabled by the following method:
In IE 7 Click on Tools, Manage Add-Ons, Enable or Disable Add-Ons to enable the Terminal Services ActiveX control. If you don’t see the Terminal Services ActiveX control in IE7 on XP SP 3 try this workaround by deleting one of the following registry keys (or all of them) in the path HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Settings\:
Once you delete these keys, the activeX control should be enabled in IE7.
For me using the Remote Desktop Client ActiveX (ActiveX Client for Terminal Services) version 5.1.2600.2180 it was ok to delete only the last key.