re: Network Drive alert on startup
Friday, March 21, 2008 at 5:56 am
Posted by Deb
(1037 messages posted)
I don't think you can stop it, my laptop does exactly the same thing if my main desktop
XP machine is turned off, all I do is click the X to close the message and it doesn't
bother me again.
It obviously doesn't annoy me as much as it does you though, maybe someone out there
knows how to turn it off and hopefully they'll post the fix for you.
Good luck.
On Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 8:52 pm, freedomindeath wrote:
>I have a second computer networked with my main computer, which I use for backup
>and other purposes. Since I want easy access to the backup machine, I have mapped
>it as a network drive so that I can easily get to it from my computer. However,
the
>backup computer is not on all the time. The problem is, if the backup computer
>is not on when I start my main machine, I get an annoying balloon in the system
tray
>telling me that my network drives cannot be mapped. Now obviously, I am aware that
>my network drive is not always connected, I just don't want that balloon popping
>up every time i start my computer. One way I can work around this is by just
>using a shortcut to the backup, or by "Add Network Location" in My Computer. The
>difference is, if I map it as a network drive, it appears as a drive and the icon
>tells my how much free space is on the backup. This I like. If I use either of the
>other two methods, it just appears as a plain old folder. So, how can I keep
>my backup computer mapped as a network drive without having that annoying alert
popping
>up every time I start my main machine?
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