Windows 8 mapped drive disappears

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This is very annoying. In reply to CSholmire's post on April 14, Hi CSholmire, Thank you for letting us know your concern. Try performing these and check for the issue after each method: Method 1: Open a Command Prompt as the user that the drives are not being remembered.

Do not use the "Run as Administrator". In this case we don't want to do that. New connections will not be remembered. If it says they "will not be remembered", then you need to change that. Method 2: The long-term fix is a registry edit that will make mapped drives visible in both standard and administrative sessions. Set its value to 1.

Reboot after adding the registry entry and programs will be able to see mapped drives forever. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Gaurav Prakash. Submit ». Thai Pepper.

NashBrydges This person is a verified professional. Verify your account to enable IT peers to see that you are a professional. CrimsonKidA This person is a verified professional. Cambridge Jan 29, at UTC. CrimsonKidA wrote: I had nothing but headaches with mapping drives via logon scripts or any. CDalley wrote: CrimsonKidA wrote: I had nothing but headaches with mapping drives via logon scripts or any. RobT64 This person is a verified professional. Rune This person is a verified professional. I used both for about a month until i cut logon script entirely.

There are issues with mobile workers and mapped drives. Even when using GPO. Sorry, rant time over. Kalbay This person is a verified professional. Would update be the same as replace? RobT64 wrote: CDAlley, if you set up a GPO and choose the replace option, then every time the computer does a gpupdate, roughly 30 mins default , it will "fix' the drive mappings. Jim This person is a verified professional. I'd love to see this thread grow into a full-Spiceworks dissertation on Drive Mapping I'd love to find a real answer to this!

JHargreaves wrote: I suspect it's something to do with the tablet being offline sometimes when they log in. This topic has been locked by an administrator and is no longer open for commenting. The good news? There are a few different ways to resolve this issue.

If your application is running with admin rights, you may not be able to see it on your mapped drives. Step 2. Step 5. Step 6. Click OK.