When booting into Windows, the OS sometimes does not reconnect mapped network drives even though the mapping is configured with the “Reconnect at sign-in” option. This is due with various timing constraints of resources during boot.
Although there are free Third Party software available that can automatically reconnect your mapped network drives, I would rather be able to do this using built-in tools than add more unnecessary software to my system. I’ve therefore written a Command Prompt script using the “net use” command. Not the prettiest of code but it does the job. Tested in Windows 10 Pro 64-bit.
The script was saved as a .CMD batch file which is executed by twice using Task Scheduler at user log on; one in non-admin and the other in admin mode. This allows mapped drives to be visible to those applications running in non-admin and also to those applications running in admin modes.
@ECHO OFF SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION SET me=%~n0 SET parent=%~dp0 TITLE Mapping network drives @ECHO Please wait whilst we reconnect your network drives. SET neterror=0 SET counter=1 SET loopvalue=11 SET /A trueloop=%loopvalue%-1 :Start ECHO _____________________________________ ECHO: IF "%counter%" EQU "%loopvalue%" ( ECHO Connection to D:\ drive timed-out SET neterror=1 GOTO End ) ECHO Attempt %counter% of %trueloop% to D:\ drive TIMEOUT /t 5 /NOBREAK >NUL IF EXIST D:\NUL ( ECHO Attempt %counter% successful. GOTO End ) NET USE D: \192.168.49.69\Data /PERSISTENT:YES IF "%ERRORLEVEL%" NEQ "0" IF "%ERRORLEVEL%" NEQ "85" ( SET /A counter=%counter%+1 GOTO Start ) :End IF "%neterror%" EQU "0" GOTO Endofscript :userconfirm ECHO _____________________________________ ECHO: SET /P userinput="Errors were found. Do you wish to try again [Y/n] " IF /I "%userinput%" EQU "y" GOTO Start IF /I "%userinput%" EQU "" GOTO Start IF /I "%userinput%" EQU "n" GOTO Endofscript GOTO userconfirm :Endofscript ECHO _____________________________________ ECHO: @ECHO Please wait, script is closing. TIMEOUT /t 5 /NOBREAK >NUL ENDLOCAL @ECHO OFF @EXIT /B 0