Windows 10: How to delay mounting network drives

Hi there!

i'm running windows 10 PRO ver 1909, and i bought a synology NAS.
Since the first day, after mapping the network drives, i noticed everytime i reboot my laptop, windows tries to mount the drives first (or so it seems), as the wifi takes a sec longer to connect, it fails and displays a popup and a red cross at the tray.
Ofc after the boot finishes, i can manually click the drive and it mounts. But it annoys me having to do this every single time.

So my questions are:

1 - Is there a way to delay the mount about 5 or 6 seconds so the network finishes booting up?

2 - If i bring my laptop out of home (with no internet, or with no access to my NAS) and try to boot, will it break my computer because of the workaround for number 1?

Cheers all

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Delay mounting network drive at boot?

I am starting a new thread as suggested as the other threads on this subject are so old! however as Microsoft does not appear to read any of these forums and more pointedly does nothing to solve the problem I will ask again.

I have three NAS boxes holding somewhere about 30TB spread over 12 drives and sometimes they are logged on at boot and sometimes not. Surely it can't be too difficult to delay the network acquisition until later in the boot sequence. In the meantime does
anyone know which application is responsible for network acquisition so I can look into this myself!

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Other thread:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-networking/delay-mounting-network-drive-at-boot/e25538d4-6f85-442c-ac43-3f8ba2e9bf75?page=4#LastReply

 

How to delay mounting network drives

Hi there!

i'm running windows 10 PRO ver 1909, and i bought a synology NAS.
Since the first day, after mapping the network drives, i noticed everytime i reboot my laptop, windows tries to mount the drives first (or so it seems), as the wifi takes a sec longer to connect, it fails and displays a popup and a red cross at the tray.
Ofc after the boot finishes, i can manually click the drive and it mounts. But it annoys me having to do this every single time.

So my questions are:

1 - Is there a way to delay the mount about 5 or 6 seconds so the network finishes booting up?

2 - If i bring my laptop out of home (with no internet, or with no access to my NAS) and try to boot, will it break my computer because of the workaround for number 1?

Cheers all

 

Windows 10 Cannot Mount Network Drive

Hi,

We would like to ask some questions to know the best possible resolution.

• Did you receive any error messages when you tried to mount the network drive?
• Have you tried restarting your PC in Safe Mode with Networking?
• Have you tried performing a clean boot?

We look forward to your reply.