Microsoft active sync software is driving me nutz.

[SemperFi]

I have 2 pocket pc's one is mine and one is for the wife. Everything works fine. It is the active sync software. My wife and I switch users constantly on this xp machine. I start to notice that there is a couple of instances of the acitve sync software running in the tray. I click the arrow to reveal hidden icons and see up to 10 - 12 instances one time. When I hover the mouse over the icons and they will disappear except for one.

I figured I would take the startup procedure out using startup.cpl and start it manually when I need it. Well when I start active sync it will put it back into the startup. I had it running and I removed the startup using startup.cpl and the wife checked her email. When I switched back it had put it back in the registry again. Man I looked through the options and couldn't find anything pertaining to the startup.

Anybody have a solution for me? Occasionally having many of these running makes the system very sluggish.

Thanks.

Semper Fi

 

[elzmaddy]

Well the best way to find out what is or isn't running is from Task Manager. Click on the processes tab and check "Show processes from all users." I assume your user has administrative priveledges. The process name for ActiveSync is WCESCOMM.exe. I suppose you can kill the duplicates if any. You probably would want to look for a better solution though.

Maybe this utility could help you: Download Startup Selector from here. It will let you very easily restore your startup configuration to what you want it to be. Then I suppose you could run it before you reboot or shut down. There is also a "StartupMonitor" utility that prompts you if you want to allow changes to the startup.