Windows 10: does any one know what service or task windows 10 uses to look for mapped drives

we are having a problem with mapped drives disappearing from our domain machines. i was curious if any one knows if there is a specific task or service that i can run and or restart to get win 10 to look for these mapped drives?

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Run scheduled task only if mapped network drive is not present?

Is it possible in Windows 10 to run a scheduled task only if a mapped network drive is not present?

Background:
I have a task, a batch script, that maps two network drives for a backup service (CrashPlan). The batch script checks if the drive is present if exist Y:\ (...) and maps it otherwise net use Y: ....

This works, but since these network paths might not be present at system start or login (NAS switched off when I start my computer), I need to repeat this task regularly to ensure that the drives are mapped if/when the network paths become available.

But I really only need to repeat the task if the drive hasn't already been mapped, so I'd like to skip the task whenever the drives are aready present.

There's no harm in running the task anyway - it just skips the net use command, but the log would be cleaner if I could skip the task when it's not needed.

The underlying "problem" is to make sure the two mapped drives are always present to the CrashPlan service, running under the SYSTEM account, whenever the network paths are available (the NAS devices are online). Feel free to suggest completely different approaches to this, but perhaps try to keep those in comments, to avoid cluttering this question's answer. I'd be happy to post such a question separately if adviced to do so.

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Work Mapped drives not working at home.


Hello All.

I have a user at work that has a laptop as her main work use (docking station at work, then takes it home to work at home).
we have a list of mapped network drives that we use here, including a personal drive.

however when this user gets home or off the network, the personal drive seems to become inactive/go missing.

there are no USB drives that interfere with the network drives, and i am lost looking for solutions.

any suggestions/help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks.