Outlook synchronization on Vista

[WMNovice]

Guys:

a) Is there any tweak for speeding up Outlook synchronization on Vista? It takes over 2 hours over a USB cable!

b) Also, the Windows Mobile Device Center constantly synchronizes without user activation. The moment my Kaiser is connected to the PC via the USB cable, the synchronization starts. After taking 2 hours, it restarts in a few minutes and takes another 2 hours, even though there is nothing to sync at that point! The Start Sync icon is ignored, and synchronization starts automatically every time. The Stop Sync icon sometimes works, sometimes doesn't.

Any idea what could be wrong? Any registry tweaks for this beast?

Sorry if this problem/issue has been posted earlier, I searched the forums and could not find anything.

[ladytoast]

Wow, something doesn't sound right there. These days for me the initial sync took about 10 minutes then each sync takes a few seconds. My phone is in the cradle all day so it syncing all the time. It is usual to see some slow down on the device when it is syncing though.

Are you running mobile device centre 6.1?
Are you syncing media at the same time?
Perhaps try turning all of the sync items off except one and then try. One by one try turning them on and see if you can work out where the problem is. Could be an entry or email that is causing a problem.
I notice there is a SP1 for office today.. might have something in there?

I have heard of people having to delete the sync relationships and start again too. It's quick enough and shouldn't cause you to loose any data unless you have changes settings from the defaults. I would certainly start by doing this. Delete the relationship on both devices and start again.

Mine used to be really problematic and I tried so many things to fix it, in the end I just reinstalled vista from scratch. It's been fine ever since.

[WMNovice]

Thanks, @ladytoast. Is there anyway to turn off the automatic resynching every 5 minutes?



Are you running mobile device centre 6.1?



- Yes



Are you syncing media at the same time?



-No


Perhaps try turning all of the sync items off except one and then try. One by one try turning them on and see if you can work out where the problem is.



-Yes, I'm doing that now, thanks for the suggestion



Could be an entry or email that is causing a problem.



- I don't sync email, since I don't use Outlook for email. Though I;ll have to start looking at email syncs soon too...



I have heard of people having to delete the sync relationships and start again too. It's quick enough and shouldn't cause you to loose any data unless you have changes settings from the defaults. I would certainly start by doing this. Delete the relationship on both devices and start again.



- Deleting the sync relationship helped me earlier to solve the failure to connect problem I had earlier. But the chances of loss of data are very high, since the Mobile Device Center deletes data from the device if you uncheck a sync type. For example, you've already synchronized Calendar. Now you want to synchronize Contacts. Guess what? Since you uncheck Calendar, it deletes all calendar entries from the phone and synchronizes the Contacts. Dangerous, if you ask me. Any way to change this behavior?


Mine used to be really problematic and I tried so many things to fix it, in the end I just reinstalled vista from scratch. It's been fine ever since.



- Afraid re-installation is not possible for me, though I'd like to uninstall and re-install Windows Mobile Device Center.