Hi:

I had disabled everything in the Startup Tab with the exception of ctfmon,
2 items applicable his Trend Penicillin AV, and one other that I can't
recall at this time. I suppose to be absolutely sure I could do as you
describe by disabling everything in Startup.

Tom


"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...
I don't think that CTFMON is your issue. The article that I reference
talks about why it gets checked again.

To narrow down the problem, you need to enabling/disabling different
things in MSCONFIG.

First try disable everything on Startup, but allow everything on the
services tab.

If things are OK, that narrows the problem to the Start Up tab.

In that case, disable half of them and try the reboot. In that way, in a
few reboots you can narrow down to the culprit.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"ColTom2" wrote in message
...
Hi:

The only way that I have found to prevent the error notice is like I say
by doing a clean boot. If I run MSCONFIG and take the check out of
"ctfmon" and reboot it is fine. However, the problem is when I open
Outlook Express it puts the check back in "ctfmon" prior to running the
compacting files folder process. I have to open OE to run the compacting
and it sorta like a Catch 22 situation.

Thanks,

Tom


"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...
Frequently asked questions about Ctfmon.exe
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=282599

Since disabling items in MSCONFIG seems to clear the issue, I would
suspect an anti-virus program trying to scan the DBX files as a cause.
Another possibility would be some indexing software trying to scan the
DBX files. Or possibly some malware scanning the files for e-mail
addresses.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"ColTom2" wrote in message
...
Hi:

Rebooting does nothing to prevent the error.

If I do a clean boot as follows I do not get the error notice:
1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type "msconfig" (without the quotation marks), and
then click OK.
3. On the Startup tab, click Disable All.
4. On the Services tab, check the box before "Hide All Microsoft
Services" and then click Disable All.
5. Click OK.

In trying to run down the cause I did notice the following:

Under Startup Item "ctfmon" I have two locations for this item:
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
and SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

If I remove both checks applicable "ctfmon" and reboot it comes back
up with none checked until I open OE. After opening OE then only the
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\windows\CurrentVersion appears.

Tom


"ColTom2" wrote in message
...
Hi:

At the end of the compacting files folder process I am getting an
error notice as follows: "This folder is currently in use by Outlook
Express or by another application""

I have all applications that I can think of turned off that could
cause this including Anti-Virus, but I am still getting this notice at
the end of the compacting process.

Does anyone have any idea as to what application could cause this
error? I am currently using Selected Startup and have any associated
application that I can think of turned off, but apparently I am
missing something.

Thanks

If the Trend Penicillin AV is trying to scan OE, that could well be your
problem.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"ColTom2" wrote in message
...
Hi:

I had disabled everything in the Startup Tab with the exception of
ctfmon, 2 items applicable his Trend Penicillin AV, and one other that
I can't recall at this time. I suppose to be absolutely sure I could
do as you describe by disabling everything in Startup.

Tom


"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...
I don't think that CTFMON is your issue. The article that I reference
talks about why it gets checked again.

To narrow down the problem, you need to enabling/disabling different
things in MSCONFIG.

First try disable everything on Startup, but allow everything on the
services tab.

If things are OK, that narrows the problem to the Start Up tab.

In that case, disable half of them and try the reboot. In that way,
in a few reboots you can narrow down to the culprit.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"ColTom2" wrote in message
...
Hi:

The only way that I have found to prevent the error notice is like
I say by doing a clean boot. If I run MSCONFIG and take the check
out of "ctfmon" and reboot it is fine. However, the problem is when
I open Outlook Express it puts the check back in "ctfmon" prior to
running the compacting files folder process. I have to open OE to
run the compacting and it sorta like a Catch 22 situation.

Thanks,

Tom


"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...
Frequently asked questions about Ctfmon.exe
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=282599

Since disabling items in MSCONFIG seems to clear the issue, I would
suspect an anti-virus program trying to scan the DBX files as a
cause. Another possibility would be some indexing software trying
to scan the DBX files. Or possibly some malware scanning the
files for e-mail addresses.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"ColTom2" wrote in message
...
Hi:

Rebooting does nothing to prevent the error.

If I do a clean boot as follows I do not get the error notice:
1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type "msconfig" (without the quotation marks),
and then click OK.
3. On the Startup tab, click Disable All.
4. On the Services tab, check the box before "Hide All Microsoft
Services" and then click Disable All.
5. Click OK.

In trying to run down the cause I did notice the following:

Under Startup Item "ctfmon" I have two locations for this item:
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
and SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

If I remove both checks applicable "ctfmon" and reboot it comes
back up with none checked until I open OE. After opening OE then
only the HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\windows\CurrentVersion appears.

Tom


"ColTom2" wrote in message
...
Hi:

At the end of the compacting files folder process I am getting
an error notice as follows: "This folder is currently in use by
Outlook Express or by another application""

I have all applications that I can think of turned off that
could cause this including Anti-Virus, but I am still getting
this notice at the end of the compacting process.

Does anyone have any idea as to what application could cause
this error? I am currently using Selected Startup and have any
associated application that I can think of turned off, but
apparently I am missing something.

Thanks