Disable Could not reconnect all network drives Notification in Windows  

syntoh said:

Entering this reg settings presented in this tutorial really disables the Message.
But it also disables the "Reconnect at sign in" setting.
After this reg entry is set, the Mapped drives are crossed out red after logon.
This is why the message don't show up again.

syntoh

This might be what I want.

A summary of my situation.

Two mapped drives (drive letters) for NAS. My original intention was for this to be on 24/7/365, but it no longer is the case due to the energy crisis.
I also have a "network location" pointing to a shared drive on my laptop which is not on 24/7.

Now the problem that I have noticed is when saving files (even to ramdisk), there will be a random pause before the file is saved, browsing file explorer on the main this pc location can be quite laggy, if I let it sit there, the two NAS network drives will be constantly refreshing between a green tick and red cross, as if windows has been coded in a really dumb way to constantly hammer them. The address bar will keep refreshing a progress bar as well to reflect this.

Now I could remove the network drives, and the network location, but then its a pain to access these drives again, as I have to type in a network address manually in the address box.

To me the most common sense way this could have been coded by microsoft is to never automatically check these drives/locations, and only try to access them when its done interactively by the operator.

I am really hoping this network tweak triggers this wanted behaviour, and I will report back in this thread on the result when I have a chance to try it. :)

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Guys thank you so much, it fixed all this weird behaviour with explorer shell windows randomly pausing.