Total Commander in Admin Mode does NOT see mapped drives

[Thoro]

I like to run Total Commander in Administrator mode for various reasons. On connect/disconnet of USB drives, the new drive letter is picked up fine by TC. BUT, if you MAP a network drive OUTSIDE TC, this new drive is NOT picked up. You have to stop and restaret TC! And visa versa for DISCONNECT a Network drive. If you do this connect/disconnect IN TC, there is not a problem.
Could someone look at this?

[HolgerK]

Welcome Thoro,

Do you use Vista or Win7?

If yes, this may explain your problem: On Vista, mapped drives are user-specific

Regards
Holger

[ghisler(Author)]

Indeed, that's a new "feature" of Windows, not a TC bug.

[StatusQuo]

Workaround: establish needed connections/drive associations once when starting TC as Administrator.

Either after starting TC:
- simply make a button etc. in TC calling the needed commands (net.exe/subst.exe)

or before/while starting TC:
- start TC using a Shortcut like "TC_Administrator.lnk":

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%windir%\system32\runas.exe /USER:Administrator "C:\Batch\TC_connect_and_start.cmd"

Example content of "C:\Batch\TC_connect_and_start.cmd":

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subst.exe F: E:\subst-host-dir
net.exe use \\1.2.3.4\share * /user:username
start C:\TotalCmd\TOTALCMD.exe
exit

Drives connected this way stay connected within TC (and tasks started from there) until TC is closed.
Tested in XP.