If the selected service does not have a 'DependOnService' key, then create one by right-clicking and selecting New > Multi-String Value. Open the 'DependOnService' key on the right side.Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services and locate the service that you need to set a dependency for.The following steps need to be performed in order to create a dependency. after you do the regedt you should be able to check the service & you will see the that it's this is done through a regedit & should be done ur own risk. This will force the service (application) to not run until the desired service has started. I would imagine the best/easiest way to do this is to make the service (of what ever app you're running) dependent on the wireless zero service (windows wireless) or lanman client service. There is a check box for "Enable single sign on for this network" which then enables "Perform immediately before user login" Is this what Select the "Security" tab and then click "Advanced settings". Right Click on the wireless network you are having this issue with. Go to "Control Panel->Network and Internet->Network and Sharing Center" On the left panel, click "Manage Wireless Networks". have found a similar option in Win7 although I'm not sure if I'm doing it correctly because it still doesn't work. This would allow for the network to be established before your user login tries to map drives. I've heard of a way to make the wireless network "pre-login" before a user logs in.
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Maybe one of you knows how to get this working. Here is another idea I have, but doesn't seem to work quite right. Ideally Microsoft should put a second option behind "Reconnect at Logon" which is "Wait for network adaptor before attempting reconnect: wireless/lan/bluetooth,etc." Please? Pretty Please?. (is a big pain on a slow 500gb external I can tell you) This can cause a big problem when using programmes like Picasa or similar which will remember media on connected drives but once the programme is started with the drive disconnected will forget and have to rexplore when the drive is reconnected. For SoHo users we tend to turn the computer on to do a specific job and then turn it off again, accessing other programmes/areas of the operating system is a pain at best and very easy to forget. Not sure all the techies understand the problem as they're use to computers being on all day so that once they are up and running everything is okay and a quick visit to "My Computer" to manually activate the drive first thing in the morning doesn't bother them. on the BT Homehub " \\thomson\bt_7g\directory\money backup file") and is now working for me. Is there some way to do this?Ī quick workaround (in XP anyway, I haven't got Vista to test it - demonstrates this is a long standing problem that should have been fixed now wireless networks are becoming the norm and often connect late in the boot process) is to point the Money Backup file location (or any other programme that you want to access the network share without having to manually reconnect) at the UNC ( \\server\share\file) rather than the drive letter (e.g. Adding a delay that allows my WiFi to get up and running before trying to reconnect the network drive should solve the problem. But, I don't really like having to remember this. Now, if after step 3 I go to My Computer, open the x: drive manually, then go on to step 4, everything works fine. Just to be clear, here are the steps of the problem:ġ) Have a previously defined network drive (xĢ) Have Microsoft Money set up to automatically save backup to network drive x:ģ) Startup computer, and receive message "Unable to reconnect all network drives."ĥ) Close Money, and get error message that drive is not accessible. If there is some way to require a delay before attempting to reconnect network drives on startup, it should solve this problem. So even though it is possible to access the drive manually, programs which attempt to do so will fail. If the connection has not been established manually by clicking on the drive in my computer on startup, then, for example, Microsoft Money will fail when attempting to write a backup file to the network drive. The difficulty arrises when a program is set to use the network drive letter. I have experienced this same problem with network drive not connecting when the network connection is delayed.