Connected network drives are not showing up

With the introduction of User Account Control (UAC) in Windows Vista, network drives are only visible to the user whose login credentials were used to create them. If SpeedCommander is then started with Run as Administrator, the network drives are not visible.

With a small change in the registry database, you can change the behavior of Windows so that network drives connected with normal rights are also visible in programs that run with elevated rights.

To do this, open the Run dialog with Win+R and enter the command regedit.exe to start the Registry Editor. Now navigate to the key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

and create a new value here with the name EnableLinkedConnections as data type REG_DWORD and set the value to 1. After restarting the system, the network drives will also be available to the current user in programs that are started with elevated privileges.