I'm running Windows 7 and I have a mapped drive to an O: drive. I also have an environment variable for a PATH location to sqlplusw (software that lets you connect to an Oracle database). I found that in Windows 7, you have to open the cmd prompt with "run as administrator". When I do this I lose access to my mapped drives. We have many people in our company using this, so we can't have them disconnect and remap the drive every time. Is there a way to fix or workaround this?Thanks,Scott

For what it's worth ... may be not much: I had odd network problems after the Win 7 upgrade on our two PCs. Then I noticed that the upgrade had installed MS drivers for the LAN adapters. When I went tothe Intel site and installed proper updated Intel drivers, things settled down ... until i ran into the next problem.

Scott, That has been around since Vista came out. See this discussion.http://www.vistaheads.com/forums/microsoft-public-windows-vista-general/125180-run-administrator-loses-access-mapped-drives.htmlBill

Thanks for your response.What I got out of that, is that I can workaround it with this... Create a file “C:\Users\Public\mapdrive.cmd” like this: @echo off Net use o: /delete Net use o: \\server\share Create this value in the registry. Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Command ProcessorValue: AutoRunType: REG_SZData: C:\Users\Public\mapdrive.CMDIs this all that can be done now? There's no official fix for it that allows the "administrator" to have access to the mapped drives without doing this?

Microsoft has a work around they don't recommend: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/mapped-drives-are-not-seen-from-elevated-command-prompt-in-vista/ Network and Systems Manager

I've tried this, but it didn't work for me. Thanks for the suggestion.

The registry modification workaround suggested for Vista does not seem to work for Windows 7 x64. The .cmd file work around does work but is very cumbersome. Trying to get .cmd files to run with elevation to launch other applications that require mapped drive access is a big hassle. Are there any alternatives or new methods?