While working an update to Genie Timeline, I ran across this issue. Which makes one wonder why Windows couldn’t connect in the first place.
Resolving the issue is straight-forward enough: just double-click on the network drive in My Computer and it’ll automatically, instantly, and silently connect. To further complicate matters: this message is shown only when you startup from a cold boot! If you restart your PC (vs shutdown and powerup), it won’t appear. If you map a network destination that does require authentication, Windows will map the drive OK. This popup is shown at system startup if you have any mapped network drives to UNC shares which are not protected with a username and password. We’ll be following up some more on this topic from a technical side later in another article, but for now, an example that most of you are sure to have come across if you’ve ever tried to map network drives before: But more importantly, Microsoft threw out decades of testing and quality assurance work on the existing Networking Stack and replaced it with something rather questionable. Network performance hasn’t improved any over the ancient stack used in XP (nor should it – it’s not like there’s anything new in IPv4) though it does add better IPv6 support out-of-the-box and ships with some even more functionality in Windows 7. Did you ever run into this problem? Let me know in the comments.One of the biggest, bestest, and most-hyped features of Windows Vista (according to Microsoft, that is) was the brand spanking new TCP/IP networking stack.
Click on the What is a network location link and select the network location.Select Choose homegroup and sharing options on the lower left side of the window.Click on the Start Orb again, type in network and sharing center and select the program with the same name from the available selection.Now re-enable the adapter that is causing the troubles.Right-click on all network adapters and select Disable from the context menu.Click on the Start Orb, type device manager in the search and run box and press enter.Close all applications that use the network connection.Here are the steps to troubleshoot the network location issue manually. The manual fix is listed on the same support web page. The Fix It displays a fixing status report in the end with options to leave feedback, get online help or read additional information about the Microsoft Fix It.Įxperienced users and users who have no success with the Fix It can try the manual fix to repair the network location issue instead.
0 kommentar(er)
