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I have repeatedly hit an issue with Windows 10 where the keyboard stops working in the start menu. It is this issue with the important difference that the MsCtfMonitor scheduled task is not just not running but missing entirely:

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The fix for this is to XML export the task on a working Windows 10 installation and import it where it is missing. This is documented on the web.

Now, I have hit this issue on multiple Windows installations. It is not a one-off bug. I had it even inside of virtual machines which are, supposedly, quite clean and "ordinary" Windows installations.

Right now, I hit this on a physical computer after rebooting. There were no Windows updates recently.

What could I be doing wrong to cause this task to be deleted? What might trigger this bug?

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    did you install kmspico?
    – NONONONONO
    Nov 19, 2020 at 9:00
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    @NONONONONO is that software known to cause this?
    – usr
    Nov 20, 2020 at 9:23
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    Somebody I know may have installed it and in the next boot, he had this issue. Uninstalling did not help.
    – NONONONONO
    Nov 20, 2020 at 21:02
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    @NONONONONO thank you.
    – usr
    Nov 21, 2020 at 8:35
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    I had exactly the same problem, and I suspect that the cause was Avira "security" suit, which applies some "repairs" to the register. I ran it, and after a reboot, had some problems, like some programs failed to initiate automatically after startup, including the ctf loader, and it was also absent on the task scheduler.
    – Colim
    Jan 15, 2022 at 7:44

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This may be caused by installing (potentially a software like kmspico).

To fix:

Windows + R Type regedit and enter.

Go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Right click on Run and add String

name it ctfmon and add value C:\Windows\System32\ctfmon.exe

After reboot that service will be up and you should not have that problem.

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