Kill network drives when disconnected

[Rudi]

Hi,

I use a laptop between work and home. A problem I am facing is when I close my laptop lid (putting it to sleep) and open it at home, it takes ages to open Windows Explorer as I assume it is trying to map all the network drives before opening Explorer. Is there a way to "kill" the network drives so that when I resume using the laptop at home, I do not need to wait ages (or reboot) before I can open/save files or open Windows Explorer?

Anyone know of a freeware app that would kill the drives automatically or if I can do something first before I close the lid (besides shut down)....

Any suggestions would be appreciated. TX

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[Leif]

Can you reset the mapping to NOT reconnect at Logon?

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[Rudi]

TX. I've reset it without the checkmark. Let's see if that works when I get home tonight.

[StuartR]

You can manually disconnect all network drives by executing the command
NET USE * /DELETE
in a command window.

You could add this command to a text file, give it a .BAT extension instead of .TXT and then create a shortcut on your desktop that you can double click.

[Rudi]

Thanks Leif and Stuart.

Stuart. This is working. It clears all the drives and when I got home, Explorer responded quickly.
Now I'm going to test it with a sleep. I prefer to have my laptop go into sleep mode when I close the lid. So on Monday O will test this process and see if it works as well as hibernate.

BTW: I changed the command to NET USE * /DELETE /Y (based on some readups on the command) so that it does not prompt. I'll see if that works too

[StuartR]

Here are a couple of .BAT files that I use to mount all my shared drives when I want to access them. This might save you a bit of time when you take the laptop back to work again.

The first file is called OneDisk.BAT it is called from the second file once for each disk that I want mounted.

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@echo off

rem   Map a single Disk drive.
rem     P1 = Drive Letter
rem     P2 = Folder that exists on that drive  (Use \ if you don't have a known folder name)
rem     P3 = Share Name
rem     P4 - (optional) /user:domain\username

If exist %1\NUL goto Exists
goto Deleted

:Exists
If exist %1%2\NUL goto Done
net use %1 /delete

:Deleted
Echo Mapping disk %1 to %3
Net Use %1 %3 %4

:Done

The second file is called WorkDisks.BAT and it maps all the drives I want mounted

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@echo off
@title %~n0

net use /persistent:NO

Call OneDisk J: \Forum "\\server.domain.com\share name with a space" /user:domain\StuartR
Call OneDisk K: \          "\\server.domain.com\sharename"
rem lots more similar lines go here

:finished
net use
pause

[Rudi]

Tx. Appreciate the assistance.