When we work within the same network, there is an excellent way to give different users access to the same files. This option goes through adding network drives within Windows 10. In this way, the drive should only be online without any user interaction. The problem arises when this unit is not online or connected to a different network. In this case, it is Windows 10 that shows us a notification advising that it is not possible to connect the unit on the network . Today we are going to see how we can deactivate this alert in case we do not want it to appear again since it can be annoying and not very useful.
The “Failed to reconnect all drives on network” notification is an alert that is sent out using the “AutoPlay” tool. If we decide to deactivate these notifications we will not receive this annoying alert again, but with it we will also deactivate all the alerts that are produced by this means.
And it is that “Automatic Play” is one of the most useful features of Windows. This function offers us the possibility of indicating that a certain application opens when any device is connected to our PC . In this way, it is possible to configure that when we connect our external hard drive to the computer, our image viewer opens by default.
It is for this reason, the inconvenience that supposes if we decide to disable the “Automatic Play” so that the message of Cannot reconnect all the units in the network does not appear, we will be making its use impossible for the other actions that we have programmed. Therefore, to disable these notifications, we will have the option to disable AutoPlay or disable them by editing the Windows Registry.
Disable AutoPlay
If we don’t mind turning off “Auto Play” to remove notifications from network drives, we can do it easily. To do this, we will press the keyboard shortcut “Windows + I” to access the Windows “Configuration” menu. Here we click on “Systems”, then on the “Notifications and actions” tab. Now we go down the screen to the section “Get notifications from these senders”. In this list we will look for the “Automatic Play” and we will deactivate it by clicking on the capsule so that the blue icon does not appear.
As an alternative , we can click on “Autoplay” and another window will open. We will leave notifications active, but in this case we will deactivate “Show notification banner” . In this way, although we continue to keep “AutoPlay” active, we are going to make the alerts go directly to the “Activity Center” and make it less annoying.
Re-enable AutoPlay
In the event that we regret or need to activate “Automatic Play” again, all we have to do is follow the steps we previously performed until we reach the “Notifications and actions” screen. We locate the “Automatic Play” again and click on the capsule to activate it and it will turn blue . In this way, all AutoPlay notifications will be enabled again.
Disable network alerts from the Windows Registry
In case we do not want to disable the alerts for “Autoplay”, it is possible to disable the alerts of the network drive by making a small modification of the “Windows Registry”. As we always recommend, extreme care must be taken when we make modifications to the Windows Registry since, if they are not carried out correctly, they can alter the proper functioning of the operating system.
To open the Windows Registry Editor, we will use the keyboard shortcut Windows + R , which will open the Run application. Here we will write ” regedit” and press the Enter key or click “OK”.
Once in the editor we must access the following path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Control NetworkProvider
Once inside this folder we must look for the value “RestoreConnection”. If we cannot find it, we must right click on “NetworkProvider” and a menu will open. Here we select New> DWORD Value (32 bits) . We will name this new value “RestoreConnection”.
Once created we will double click on it and write ” 0″ inside the value data box. Once finished, we restart Windows . When it restarts, if there is any network drive that is not connected we will no longer receive any notification about it Once the unit is available, our system will connect to it in the normal way.
Thanks to this modification in the “Windows Registry Editor”, we will only change the alert regarding network drives. Therefore, all the alerts we have will continue to appear on our Desktop.
Re-enable the network alert from Windows Registry Editor
In case we ever need to receive network notifications again, we can enable them again. For this we will only have to access the registry again by following the steps we have previously seen. Now we will search for and delete the “RestoreConnection” file that we had created by right-clicking on it and choosing “Delete”. Also, we can double click on it and enter ” 1 ” in its value box instead of 0. Once the change is complete, we must always restart our computer so that the changes are applied correctly.
