How can I disable the notification "Could not connect all network drives"?

Question

_{Wednesday, November 15, 2017 8:26 PM}

The error messages is not confusing. It is absolutely correct in my situation but I just want to get rid of the notification for it.

My situation, my pc connects to multiple different networks, home, office, and clients... I have mapped drives for each of these different networks. Therefore, I will always get this message regardless of where I am because some drives will not be there.

A similar annoyance is the pesky reminder than I am not using the optimal power management settings for battery life. Well, duh, that was intentional. I like my brightness at full, stop tell me that is bad for battery life.

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_{Thursday, November 16, 2017 6:38 AM ✅Answered}

Hi,

We can’t disable a separate message like "Could not connect all network drives" in Windows, just a sort of notification or whole notifications.

Go to Settings\System\Notifications & actions, turn off Get notifications from apps and other senders.

Or, open group policy editor, navigate to User Configurations\Administrative Templates\Start Menu and Taskbar, enable Remove Notifications and Action Center, or go to Notifications folder here for detailed configurations.

Please understand.

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_{Thursday, September 13, 2018 10:24 AM | 2 votes}

1. As an administrator, hold the Windows Key, while pressing “R” to bring up the Run dialog box.
2. Type “Regedit“, then press “Enter“.
3. The Registry Editor window appears. Navigate to the following location in the Registry.
   • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
   • SYSTEM
   • CurrentControlSet
   • Control
   • NetworkProvider
4. Give “RestoreConnection” one of the values of “0” to disabled the mapped network drive message.
5. If this value doesn’t exist, right-click, then choose “New” > “DWORD Value“ and name it “RestoreConnection”. Make sure you have "0" set as value.
6. Restart your system.

_{Monday, December 3, 2018 6:37 PM}

Legend - I have been searching for this. The reg change works and I have not run into any issues since... Thanks icemindd