ActiveSync Toggle

Most Pocket PC users have at one time or another found themselves frustrated that ActiveSync kicked in at just the wrong time. Maybe you wanted to charge your Pocket PC but not have to launch Outlook to synchronize it--that's the scenario that sometimes gets me. Of course, if you're feeling up to it, you can always dive into the Task Manager and kill the wcesmgr.exe and wcescomm.exe processes, which will stop ActiveSync. You can then launch it again from your Start menu.

Alternatively, there is a utility called, aptly, ActiveSync Toggle which can unload ActiveSync from memory when it is not needed. The reason the developer felt that an application was needed for this purpose turned out to be the fact that once installed, it is very difficult to set ActiveSync to not load with Windows. Each time it runs, it checks to ensure that the registry key that launches it at system start exists - and if it doesn't, it adds it in again. ActiveSync Toggle will actually permanently remove ActiveSync from starting up at all, unless you choose to re-enable it.

Tags: ActiveSync, ActiveSync Toggle, ActivesyncToggle, freeware, Microsoft, Microsoft ActiveSync, MicrosoftActivesync, Windows Mobile, WindowsMobile