I've been using IME to type in Japanese, but I'm having a weird problem with it. It will run on startup fine, (I've seen the ctfmon.exe thing, and I have it running) but the IME panel disappears any time I bring focus to any application other than the taskbar/start menu. It used to work fine...
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Language Bar Disappear - Solved
I've seen somewhere that in order to restore the language bar there's the CTFMON.EXE that should be added to the registry.
However, ever since I have windows 7, I never saw the CTFMON loading in windows start-up and there was no problem with the language bar...