ServiceLayer stops applications from running prope...

Hi,
I'm using Nokia PC Sync (Nokia PC Suite 6.85.14.1) to synchronize data between Outlook (Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 SP3, Windows XP SP2) and my Nokia N73 via bluetooth (Bluetooth Stack for Windows by Toshiba, Version v4.31.02.6(D)). After all this works for me quite well, sync works just fine in both directions.
Unfortunately some applications (MS Office, Google Desktop Search etc.) on my windows xp notebook behave quite strange since I installed the Nokia PC Suite: the applications do take a lot more time to startup (for example MS Excel do take about a minute to startup, normally it takes a few seconds).
I figured out that a program called 'PC Connectivity Solution' (which is bundled with Nokia PC Suite) is the reason for (the running process is called ServiceLayer.exe) - whenever I kill this process the other apps do work properly (startup in a few seconds). But the ServiceLayer process is needed by Nokia PC Sync.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks and best regards
- Stephan

in the absence of any other solutions, i decided to go the DIY approach.
I noticed that servicelayer.exe is run as a service, which means you cant "kill" it as you would kill a normal process, using the task manager. you can only stop it in the "Services" window of the control panel.
I researched a way to start and stop services programmatically.
Apparently you can stop any service using the following DOS command:
net stop "servicename"
and you can start any service with
net start "servicename"
so then it was pretty straightforward i created two .bat files one to stop the service and 1 to start it.
in theory everything should be fine now, but ive noticed once i stop the servicelayer.exe service, whenever i right click on any file on my computer, i get an error message in a "nokia phone browser" dialog box, with a red "X", pop up saying "The operation could not be completed". how annoying.
i did notice one benefit of stopping and restarting the service though, the memory usage went right down to 4 megabytes after i did that. servicelayer.exe has definitely got a memory leak.
in case its relevant im using nokia pc suite v 6.85.14.1
on windows 2000 service pack 4
Message Edited by jibbr on 03-Apr-2008 09:27 AM
Message Edited by jibbr on 03-Apr-2008 09:32 AM

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