how do i remove popup "could not connect to all network drives"

every morning when I turn on my laptop, I get the stupid balloon in the
corner, and it wouldn't be a problem if it went away, but I have to click on
the "x" to get rid of it.

Computer's are supposed to make my life easier, not harder. This stupid
useless balloon is not helping me, and I want to get rid of it. I know it has
to be a registry entry somewhere. does anyone have an answer?

Thanks

HI
Un-Map the Disk Drives the are any more on the Network and it would not come
up.
Jack (MVP-Networking).

"sturmey" <sturmey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:02332642-5467-4B5D-A3F1-42127B731756@microsoft.com...
> every morning when I turn on my laptop, I get the stupid balloon in the
> corner, and it wouldn't be a problem if it went away, but I have to click
> on
> the "x" to get rid of it.
>
> Computer's are supposed to make my life easier, not harder. This stupid
> useless balloon is not helping me, and I want to get rid of it. I know it
> has
> to be a registry entry somewhere. does anyone have an answer?
>
> Thanks

Sorry. Not a viable solution.

I use the drives, but some of them are mapped to shares on other computers
that aren't alwas on. Also two of the drives are mapped to a file server
through openVPN which only comes up after I've logged in. (OpenVPN allows me
to connect both inside and outside the firewall).

I need to have the drives mapped, I don't need to know if windows was able
to auto connect at log in.

"Jack (MVP-Networking)." wrote:

> HI
> Un-Map the Disk Drives the are any more on the Network and it would not come
> up.
> Jack (MVP-Networking).
>
> "sturmey" <sturmey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:02332642-5467-4B5D-A3F1-42127B731756@microsoft.com...
> > every morning when I turn on my laptop, I get the stupid balloon in the
> > corner, and it wouldn't be a problem if it went away, but I have to click
> > on
> > the "x" to get rid of it.
> >
> > Computer's are supposed to make my life easier, not harder. This stupid
> > useless balloon is not helping me, and I want to get rid of it. I know it
> > has
> > to be a registry entry somewhere. does anyone have an answer?
> >
> > Thanks
>
>

"sturmey" <sturmey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A270DA65-0A79-4AB8-A47C-A86EEDBA3055@microsoft.com...
> Sorry. Not a viable solution.
>
> I use the drives, but some of them are mapped to shares on other
> computers
> that aren't alwas on. Also two of the drives are mapped to a file
> server
> through openVPN which only comes up after I've logged in. (OpenVPN
> allows me
> to connect both inside and outside the firewall).
>
> I need to have the drives mapped, I don't need to know if windows was
> able
> to auto connect at log in.
>

Delete the mapping and recreate it without 'reconnect at login' ticked ?

Tom

That could work. Doesn't it delete the mapping though when I log out? I seem
to remember that happening in previous versions of Windows.

I'll try it and find out.
Sturmey

"Tom Allen" wrote:

>
> "sturmey" <sturmey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A270DA65-0A79-4AB8-A47C-A86EEDBA3055@microsoft.com...
> > Sorry. Not a viable solution.
> >
> > I use the drives, but some of them are mapped to shares on other
> > computers
> > that aren't alwas on. Also two of the drives are mapped to a file
> > server
> > through openVPN which only comes up after I've logged in. (OpenVPN
> > allows me
> > to connect both inside and outside the firewall).
> >
> > I need to have the drives mapped, I don't need to know if windows was
> > able
> > to auto connect at log in.
> >
>
> Delete the mapping and recreate it without 'reconnect at login' ticked ?
>
> Tom
>
>
>

If you do not check the "reconnect at login" box, it doesn't keep the mapping
after a reboot. This was not the solution.

It has to be a registry entry, I seem to remember seeing something like it a
few years ago, but I can't find it.

Sturmey

"sturmey" wrote:

> That could work. Doesn't it delete the mapping though when I log out? I seem
> to remember that happening in previous versions of Windows.
>
> I'll try it and find out.
> Sturmey
>
> "Tom Allen" wrote:
>
> >
> > "sturmey" <sturmey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:A270DA65-0A79-4AB8-A47C-A86EEDBA3055@microsoft.com...
> > > Sorry. Not a viable solution.
> > >
> > > I use the drives, but some of them are mapped to shares on other
> > > computers
> > > that aren't alwas on. Also two of the drives are mapped to a file
> > > server
> > > through openVPN which only comes up after I've logged in. (OpenVPN
> > > allows me
> > > to connect both inside and outside the firewall).
> > >
> > > I need to have the drives mapped, I don't need to know if windows was
> > > able
> > > to auto connect at log in.
> > >
> >
> > Delete the mapping and recreate it without 'reconnect at login' ticked ?
> >
> > Tom
> >
> >
> >

Came up with a solution, still working on making it perfect.
unmapped the drives that I had.

Created a new network location. used the same shares as I did before using
\\computer\share\ and then named the share according to the names I gave the
drive mapping. (used to be "I:\" now it's "I; drive")

doesn't give me errors when I boot, and I can read and write to the shares
as before. Biggest drawback so far is that I can't get disk usage stats like
bytes free space.

Sturmey


"sturmey" wrote:

> If you do not check the "reconnect at login" box, it doesn't keep the mapping
> after a reboot. This was not the solution.
>
> It has to be a registry entry, I seem to remember seeing something like it a
> few years ago, but I can't find it.
>
> Sturmey
>
> "sturmey" wrote:
>
> > That could work. Doesn't it delete the mapping though when I log out? I seem
> > to remember that happening in previous versions of Windows.
> >
> > I'll try it and find out.
> > Sturmey
> >
> > "Tom Allen" wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > "sturmey" <sturmey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > > news:A270DA65-0A79-4AB8-A47C-A86EEDBA3055@microsoft.com...
> > > > Sorry. Not a viable solution.
> > > >
> > > > I use the drives, but some of them are mapped to shares on other
> > > > computers
> > > > that aren't alwas on. Also two of the drives are mapped to a file
> > > > server
> > > > through openVPN which only comes up after I've logged in. (OpenVPN
> > > > allows me
> > > > to connect both inside and outside the firewall).
> > > >
> > > > I need to have the drives mapped, I don't need to know if windows was
> > > > able
> > > > to auto connect at log in.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Delete the mapping and recreate it without 'reconnect at login' ticked ?
> > >
> > > Tom
> > >
> > >
> > >

Good question. There must be a registry setting that will control the ballon pop-ups. Would love to know what it is myself.


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