Win XP Mapped Drives Sunday, November 18, 2001 at 8:46 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Josh W (3 messages posted) When mapping network drives in Win XP, they do not automatically reconnect at startup. The mapping is enabled at startup, but Win XP does not automatically "connect"; they will only reconnect if you go to Explorer or you open a file on the mapped drive via a shortcut. This is causing problems with applications (Peachtree Accounting) which don't actually access the mapped drive when it starts, but merely checks to see that there is an existing connection. Microsoft says the fact that the mapped drives don't automatically reconnect is "by design" (how ignorant is that?). Does anybody have a solution or a workaround? Thanks. Responses to this message: re: Win XP Mapped Drives (Michelle: Sunday, November 18, 2001 at 11:48 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Win XP Mapped Drives (Josh W: Sun, Nov 18, 2001, 8:46 am) re: Win XP Mapped Drives (Michelle: Sun, Nov 18, 2001, 11:48 am) re: Win XP Mapped Drives (Josh W: Mon, Nov 19, 2001, 6:05 am) re: Win XP Mapped Drives (twrazel: Tue, Aug 5, 2003, 11:31 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum