Make your my computer open faster by disconnecting the network drives

Posted on March 14th, 2008 by Jason

I have already published one post on How to fix slow opening of my computer and delayed contents display here.

There are still some issues like connected network drives when you use office at your work place.

Like in my office when I login at my system at my work place, according to the user policy every user is connected to the network drives at the server location.

These connection to the network drives make my computer more slow at the time of opening.

Let see how can you disconnect network drives.

With the help of simple vbscript you can simply disconnect to network drives and printers.

1. Download it and open this script in notepad.

2. Replace with your network drive letter no.9 strDriveLetter = “:” For example: strDriveLetter = “H:”

3. Save this script and place it in the startup programs

4. Open Start >> All Programs >> Startup , right click on it and select open.

5. paste the script here in this startup folder.

6. Now restart your windows, your network drives will be automatically disconnected and your my computer will open faster.

7. That’s it done

I hope this will speed up opening of my computer to great extent, and my next post will target the same again to speed up the opening of my computer.

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4 Responses to “Make your my computer open faster by disconnecting the network drives”

Zamora525 on 25 Jul 2008 at 10:21 am #

The tip is great and it works, but

Another reason also why mycomputer icon opens up slowly is because
of a program called Windows Image Acquisition(WIA)

Disable it by going to

Control Panel
Admin Tools
Services
and Disable Windows image acquisition(WIA)
Thompson@Cheap computer on 17 Feb 2009 at 12:37 am #

I get very impatient when it takes time for the windows to open as it makes my work slower i would surely like to follow these tips.
Anon on 22 Jun 2009 at 10:06 am #

OR
you could just right click the drive icon and click “disconnect”…
Troy on 14 Aug 2009 at 1:49 pm #

Can I shut off the mandatory password reset is I have administrator access?
If so how?