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Old mapped drives
Name: 0SCGizmo Date: November 2, 2006 at 06:37:15 Pacific OS: Windows XP Pro CPU/Ram: 1.70 GHz/ 1 Gig Product: IBM ThinkPad
Comment:
Is there a way that Windows remembers old mapped drives? I was looking for a drive that I had mapped about 2 months ago and cannot find it. (In a domain that has around 400 shared folders) Does Windows store the location in a temp file?
Name: Michael J (by mjdamato) Date: November 2, 2006 at 06:45:00 Pacific
Reply:
If it is saved it, it would show up in "My Network Neighborhood". And, it would be saved in the registry - not a temp file.
Michael J
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Response Number 2
Name: 0SCGizmo Date: November 2, 2006 at 06:48:55 Pacific
Reply:
It will show up in "My network places" or as a network drive in "My Computer" if it was still mapped. What my question is, does Windows save the information about mapped drives that are no longer mapped?
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Response Number 3
Name: trdj Date: November 2, 2006 at 14:47:24 Pacific
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