Microsoft ActiveSync is Bad
If you use Microsoft ActiveSync for your mobile device, you might have noticed constant clicking sounds coming from your computer. That’s the sound of ActiveSync doing something - who knows what - on your hard drive. It won’t do anything bad, but it’s really annoying, and if you’re using a laptop, it drains the battery life. To stop it, you have to kill ActiveSync (aka wcescomm.exe) through the Task Manager. Then remove it from Microsoft’s Registry so that the process doesn’t always start up:
- Run regedit.exe
- Delete “H/PC Connection Agent” entry under My Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
The trouble is that you’ll have to restart wcescomm.exe manually the next time you want to sync. By default, it’s installed under C:\Program Files\Microsoft ActiveSync.
Was that confusing? Yeah, I thought so. Shouldn’t things be getting simpler as software gets better?