Query hint to force SQL to use a temporary table in a CTE query?

Hi,
is it possible to tell SQL Server to create a temporary table by itself when I'm using a CTE in my query?
I have a query starting with a CTE where I group by my record, then another recursive CTE use the first CTE and finally my select statement like:
with cte as (select a,b,c,row_number() ... from mytable group by a,b,c)
, cte2(select .... from cte A where rownum =1
union all select ... from cte B inner join cte2 C on ......
select * from cte2
this query is very very slow, but if I store the first CTE into a temporary table and then cte2 consume my temp table rather than the CTE, the query is very fast.
creating the temp table took 10sec and the select took 20sec
while the initial query didnt return anything after 2minutes!!!
so what can I try to do to have the query running in less than 30sec without creating the temp table first?
is there a query hint which can be used to tell SQL Server to convert the CTE into a temp table?
as I have a lot of query to manage, I want to simplify my model without relying in temporary tables every time I suffer this issue...
thanks.

What is your SQL Server version?
There is no hint to materialize results of cte into a temp table, so the solution you tried is the best you can have.
I think the idea of materializing CTE into a temp table was already proposed on Connect. Try searching for this and vote.
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Please follow basic Netiquette and post the DDL we need to answer this. Follow industry and ANSI/ISO standards in your data. You should follow ISO-11179 rules for naming data elements. There is no generic “id”, “name, etc. in RDBMS. Tables have to have a key,
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</CFQUERY>
<CFOUTPUT query="ITE_Temp2">
Output from Temp Table<br>
<p>FullFile: #FullFile#, EmployeeCount: #EmployeeCount#</p>
</CFOUTPUT>
Thanks for any help/advice.
Gary.

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