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Is there a more useful fix for this problem than
disconnecting any mapped
drived that are not connected?
I have drives mapped for both work and home use and really
don't want to
have to remap my drives every time I change locations.
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Unfortunately not if you want the Office programs to start
and work with files and folders quickly. This really became
an issue with the newer versions of Office because Office 97
had no lag time if you had unconnected mapped drives.
Apparently MS changed the way they handled file and folder
information in newer versions of Office.
I have two laptops that I regularly transfer between my work
DNS network and my home peer-to-peer network. I have
created batch files and placed shortcuts to them in the
quick launch toolbar to log-on and log-off to the individual
drives in each network. It's a pain in the butt but it does
work.
A sample of the log-on and log-off batch files are:
Onto the DNS network where there are two servers and two
other computers that are shared peer-to-peer that I
regularly connect to.
cd \windows\system32
NET USE R: \\XXX2\RECORDS /persistent:no
School records on server
NET USE Z: \\XXX2\LVTRAVELCOURSE /persistent:no
Course documents on server
NET USE P: \\XXX2\LVTRAVEL /persistent:no
Personal folder on server
NET USE N: \\XXX1\PROGRAMS /persistent:no
Shared programs on server
NET USE V: \\CDCOPIER\CD\LVTRAVEL /persistent:no
Personal folder on CD/DVD duplicator
NET USE X: \\FACULTY9\C$ /persistent:no
My office computer's system drive
rem NET USE Y: \\FACULTY9\D$ /persistent:no
My office computer's backup drive not normally connected
The "/persistent no" will automatically disconnect network
drive when I shut down the computer. If I hibernate my
laptop instead of shutting down the drive mappings come back
when I turn it on the next morning.
Disconnects the network if I simply hibernate the drive
between work and home.
cd \windows\system32
NET USE R: /delete
NET USE Z: /delete
NET USE P: /delete
NET USE N: /delete
NET USE V: /delete
NET USE X: /delete
NET USE Y: /delete
Log onto home network: I have three Network Attached
Storage devices connected to my wireless router/switch along
with one desktop currently in service along with three
wirelessly connected laptops.
cd \windows\system32
NET USE W: \\BACKUP-250\BACKUP /persistent:no Backup
NAS device - 250 GB
NET USE S: \\Documents\Document /persistent:no
Work drive on NAS - 250 GB
NET USE O: "\\SONY\SONY C" /persistent:no
Home desktop system drive - 60 GB
NET USE P: "\\SONY\SONY D" /persistent:no
Home desktop 1st work drive - 100 GB
NET USE Q: "\\SONY\SONY E" /persistent:no
Home desktop main data drive - 300 GB
NET USE T: \\MOVIESTORE\MS /persistent:no
NAS where all video files stored - 500 GB
Hope this helps (but with the file management issue of newer
versions of Office it probably won't.)