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Creating shortcuts to network drives with virtual machine

I have noticed that one can NOT add a shortcut to a network drive (share drive) within a Windows 7 VMware virtual machine by using anything other than opening two explorer windows and clicking and dragging the mapped drive to the folder where you want the drive shortcut to appear.

Using other methods such as the ‘Create Shortcut’ method by right-clicking on a folder location or using the ‘Add network location’ do not work.  Each time I have tried these methods the window to create the shortcut locks and freezes.

Get a list of the full network shared drive paths on your Windows machine

Sometimes our network administrators create network shared drives that auto-mount when we log onto our network domain.  To get the full list of drives mapped and the network paths, use the following command in the DOS prompt:

net use

To have the list saved to a text file use:

net use > mapped_drives.txt

[Note: the mapped_drives.txt file will be saved to the command prompt directory in DOS when you run the command shown above.  By default it probably will be ‘C:\Users\[your username]’]