Recent content by marklyn

I've also been dealing with this issue for 7 months. I've tried variations of this solution (glad it worked for you) but it never worked for me, including removing windows credentials and re-adding them from scratch. I've searched this and other forums consistently during this time, with no...

Good point, I'll hunt for the download. This assumes I can do a clean install, which is what I want.

Thanks Shawn. I really want to run the evaluation on my own hardware instead of a VM. I have and do use VM's but if this test works the way I hope it does then I'd be buying the pro version upgrade to 'fix' an issue that I can't seem to resolve with the Windows 8 core version I have installed...

I have an OEM Windows 8 version installed on my C: drive and a separate hard drive for other drive mappings/shares. So the only thing I have on my first drive (C:) is Windows 8 and I have a verified image backup of it (C:). I'd like to install the Windows 8 Enterprise trial version in place of...

I know this thread is old but what the OP is asking happened to me. I have two drives, a 128Gb SSD which I had Windows 8 loaded on and a regular 1Tb hard drive set up with 4 other partitions (D, E, I & V). I had a good system recovery image on a USB stick, plus I also had current drive images...

Wow, that looked so promising, but unfortunately it made no difference. I even removed the prior drive mappings, wiped windows credentials and re-established drive mapping, rebooted, etc. Arggggghhhhh. Why is something that I should be taking for granted such a pain. Thanks for your suggestion...

Yes, I realize I do and assume that this is not available in regular Windows 8. Damn MS. Is there another way I can maybe do this via the registry? This drive mapping issue is so annoying and utter nonsense that I have to deal with it.

Under administrative tools, I don't see a local security policy for my Windows 8.

unfortunately, I tried that hotfix last week and it turns out I already had this hotfix installed, so, no go for me. Thanks for the suggestion/lead though.

I actually saw that post somewhere before but disregarded it since I always want a permanent connection upon reboot. Besides, I'm not on a domain, I'm in a workgroup, so I couldn't do the gpupdate anyway. Thanks for the suggestion though.

I actually used one for 1 minute (sorry, forgot to mention) but even if that work (it didn't), that would be too long to 'wait' for a drive mapping in Windows 8 that was immediate after boot in Windows 7.

OK, I tried this and it really didn't make any difference. I set it up for a 7 second delay and the script ran but the red X's were still by the drive mappings. I've got a batch file set up that I can manually run and it works most of the time a few seconds after I've booted up but I've noticed...

I thought about something like this but I'd sure hate to slow down a boot process that I'm proud of (8-10 seconds)! Maybe if I figure out a way for the net use command to run quietly (or at least minimized), that won't be such an annoying reminder. Thanks for the input.

Unfortunately, this didn't help me. Most of the article appears to be XP oriented so some suggestions or steps weren't able to do in Windows 8. I've even tried setting up a drive mapping in the run part of the registry, no good there either. I find it odd that when I restart and see the red X's...

I've set up two drive mappings on my Windows 8 machine to my NAS machine but they never stay when I reboot. When I reboot or start my machine, the drive mappings show a red "X" beside them in Explorer, but when I just single click on them they open up as you would expect them to. From that...