
One of the significant improvements of Windows OSs (since Vista) is User Account Control (UAC) feature. User Account Control prompts the user for approval each time when the app tries to make any changes to the system settings. One of the side effects of UAC is the inability to access the mapped (over net use) network drives from the applications running in privileged mode (Run As Administrator). This means that when you run the command prompt or a file manager (like Total Commander) with elevated privileges, they won’t display the disk letters of the mounted network shares.
In this article we’ll show how to grant access to network drives from the PC-3000 run in elevated mode in Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, or Windows Vista.
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