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    Over time all of my drive letters are being mapped to a network drive by itself.  I have researched this and many people have the same issue but there has been no fix.  Please help!
    Thursday, September 27, 2012 8:03 PM

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    Give us more information on your problem.

    Rgds

    Milos

    Thursday, September 27, 2012 9:23 PM
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    Here is a image of my computer.  The only one I mapped was the Z drive all others show up by themselves.  I disconnect them but they still come back
    Friday, September 28, 2012 3:27 PM
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    The OS will not do it automatically. It may be caused by

    1. Some third party application.

    2. Scripts deployed via GPO.

    --- Is the machine in a domain? If yes, please check if the issue also happens on other machines.

    --- Do you find any pattern to triger the issue? For example, the mapped drivers comes back after you reboot the machine. If we can find a way to reproduce the issue, it will be easier to trace the problem.

    Saturday, September 29, 2012 8:19 AM
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    Try opening command prompt (cmd) and type following on it

    NET USE /PERSISTENT:NO

    then disconnect all of the drives you don't need and do a reboot

    Saturday, September 29, 2012 2:55 PM
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    Try opening command prompt (cmd) and type following on it

    NET USE /PERSISTENT:NO

    then disconnect all of the drives you don't need and do a reboot


    Try this.....didn't work.
    Monday, October 1, 2012 2:40 PM
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    The OS will not do it automatically. It may be caused by

    1. Some third party application.

    2. Scripts deployed via GPO.

    --- Is the machine in a domain? If yes, please check if the issue also happens on other machines.

    --- Do you find any pattern to triger the issue? For example, the mapped drivers comes back after you reboot the machine. If we can find a way to reproduce the issue, it will be easier to trace the problem.


    Yes it is part of a domain and no other machine have the problem.  I'll see if I can pick up a pattern.  I have Quickbooks open all day pulling it's data from the server and a few shortcuts on my desktop to .xls files stored on server
    Monday, October 1, 2012 2:46 PM
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    Back up your registry before you do anything!

    Open regedit and go to following key:

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2

    You should be able to find several entries starting with

    ##brooks-doc1#

    Delete them and reboot.

    Try to login again.

    Wednesday, October 3, 2012 1:41 PM
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    Back up your registry before you do anything!

    Open regedit and go to following key:

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2

    You should be able to find several entries starting with

    ##brooks-doc1#

    Delete them and reboot.

    Try to login again.


    Tried it and still didn't work.  Have all letter mapped to shared drive??????
    Wednesday, October 3, 2012 6:33 PM
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    I am having the same issue. We are not part of a domain but I have 3 computers that will copy the three drives that are already mapped. It has shown up and disappeared at random. One computer kept them after a reboot, the other did not. Any suggestions would be helpful.
    Tuesday, October 16, 2012 3:16 PM
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    This is happening to me all as well. On Windows 8.1, I tried all the things above, on next boot readds all the letters. Still no suggestions?
    Saturday, September 28, 2013 9:30 AM
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    You have shortcut(s) on your local machine or in your profile to a folder location that no longer exits on the share. When the system attempts to locate the (broken) shared folder location it maps the drive again.  Each time you attempt to open the (broken) shortcut or right-click on in to access its properties it will again map the drive to a new letter.
    Saturday, December 14, 2013 8:27 AM
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    You have shortcut(s) on your local machine or in your profile to a folder location that no longer exits on the share. When the system attempts to locate the (broken) shared folder location it maps the drive again.  Each time you attempt to open the (broken) shortcut or right-click on in to access its properties it will again map the drive to a new letter.
    Saturday, December 14, 2013 8:27 AM
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    Hi Team,

    Please un-map all the mapped drives and reboot the machine. Then check the status.

    Regards,

    Ramasamy

    Tuesday, October 11, 2016 12:15 PM
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    Hi Team,

    Please un-map all the mapped drives and reboot the machine. Then check the status.

    Regards,

    Ramasamy

    Tuesday, October 11, 2016 12:15 PM
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    you can try net use command to remove persistent drives...

    or you can try fixit   /kb/2970908

    I had similar issues and removed all previous mappings by net use \\<Exact Map Name>  /d command

    Tuesday, October 11, 2016 12:44 PM
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    Has anyone been able to figure this one out? I'm having the same issue.
    Wednesday, February 21, 2018 6:17 AM
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    yes I have finally worked out, that mircosoft is the problem! it only happens when you have the "PHOTO SCREEN SAVER" turned on and it has invalid shortcuts in where it is looking for the photos to display

    this is why it is so random (I cant find any short cut checker that works on a network drive to solve this!!!! (as my photos I keep on a network drive)


    And its still an issue in windows 10!!!

    • Proposed as answer by Garrath Saturday, September 29, 2018 10:21 AM
    • Edited by Garrath Saturday, September 29, 2018 10:25 AM
    Saturday, September 29, 2018 10:14 AM
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    it s happening to my workstations right now 

    What i did : 

    Disconnected but they came back. 

    Used Net use commands but it did not work. (Persistent:no)

    I also dont have any policy to drives. 

    Checked regedit for workstations (MountPoints2, run,Deleted the mapped drives.)

    Anyone help how i can solved that ? 

    Sunday, December 30, 2018 9:43 PM
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    I found shortcuts were created under the mapped drive. I deleted this shortcuts and back to normal .
    Monday, January 28, 2019 9:26 PM
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    I realize this thread is really old, but i have 1 workstation on a domain that has suddenly developed this problem.  Could someone explain what fix finally worked?
    Wednesday, March 4, 2020 2:21 AM