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