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Maped network drives

iregk · 2009-02-04 09:22:27

Hi all, I remember doing this before and can't remember where it is. Google doesn't help either. When you have a lot of mapped network drives like I do when you take your machine off the lan each time you open explorer window it tries to ping each drive. This can take a while when your not connected. There is an option…

04-02-2009 9:22am

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iregk

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Hi all,

I remember doing this before and can't remember where it is. Google doesn't help either.

When you have a lot of mapped network drives like I do when you take your machine off the lan each time you open explorer window it tries to ping each drive. This can take a while when your not connected.

There is an option somewhere to only attempt to connect when you click on the drive. Can anyone tell me where that is? I know there is the reconnect at start up option but if you uncheck that when your mapping when you start the machine that drives doesn't get remapped.

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