Windows Client OS•Windows Server

Network Drives not available from an elevated command prompt (fix)

August 16, 2022 by AJNI No Comments

If UAC is enabled and Admin Approval Mode is enabled for the built-in Administrator for example, you might have problems accessing network drives from an elevated command prompt. This behavior is expected, since in Admin Approval Mode all apps run as a standard user by default. If a program is elevated, it runs under a different session than the non-elevated user.

Microsoft suggests following fixes or workarounds:

  1. Remap network drives via bat file or manually
  2. Create this registry key, which creates a link between both sessions:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System DWORD EnableLinkedConnections 1

References:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/networking/mapped-drives-not-available-from-elevated-command