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Answered Windows 7 "Run as Administrator" Loses Mapped Drives

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      Wednesday, January 20, 2010 8:49 PM
       
       
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      I'm running Windows 7 and I have a mapped drive to an O: drive. I also have an environment variable for a PATH location to sqlplusw (software that lets you connect to an Oracle database). I found that in Windows 7, you have to open the cmd prompt with "run as administrator". When I do this I lose access to my mapped drives. We have many people in our company using this, so we can't have them disconnect and remap the drive every time. Is there a way to fix or workaround this?

      Thanks,
      Scott
       

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    • Wednesday, January 20, 2010 10:56 PM
       
       
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      For what it's worth ... may be not much:

      I had odd network problems after the Win 7 upgrade on our two PCs.  Then I noticed that the upgrade had installed MS drivers for the LAN adapters.  When I went tothe Intel site and installed proper updated Intel drivers, things settled down ... until i ran into the next problem.
       
    • Thursday, January 21, 2010 3:10 AM
       
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        Scott,

          That has been around since Vista came out. See this discussion.

      http://www.vistaheads.com/forums/microsoft-public-windows-vista-general/125180-run-administrator-loses-access-mapped-drives.html
      Bill
       
    • Thursday, January 21, 2010 9:13 PM
       
       
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      Thanks for your response.
      What I got out of that, is that I can workaround it with this...

      Create a file “C:\Users\Public\mapdrive.cmd” like this:

       

      @echo off

      Net use o: /delete

      Net use o: \\server\share

       

      Create this value in the registry.

       

      Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Command Processor
      Value: AutoRun
      Type: REG_SZ
      Data: C:\Users\Public\mapdrive.CMD


      Is this all that can be done now? There's no official fix for it that allows the "administrator" to have access to the mapped drives without doing this?

       
    • Tuesday, January 26, 2010 6:57 PM
       
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      Microsoft has a work around they don't recommend:

      http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/mapped-drives-are-not-seen-from-elevated-command-prompt-in-vista/


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    • Wednesday, January 27, 2010 4:34 PM
       
       
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      I've tried this, but it didn't work for me. Thanks for the suggestion.
       
    • Monday, June 21, 2010 4:42 AM
       
       
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      The registry modification workaround suggested for Vista does not seem to work for Windows 7 x64.

      The .cmd file work around does work but is very cumbersome.  Trying to get .cmd files to run with elevation to launch other applications that require mapped drive access is a big hassle. 

       

      Are there any alternatives or new methods?