Turn off windows 7 message "could not reconnect to all network drives"

How do I turn off the little popup bubble in systray that says "could not reconnect to all network drives"?

I am aware that a particular drive is only accessible at certain times so I don't need an annoying little popup message every time I reboot.

I've seen similar popup messages get hidden through means of the registry editor, but Google turned up no answers for this one.

Solution 1:

My googlefu returned this

Probably you have noticed that Windows 7 will pop up annoying messages when not being able to reconnect network drives on boot. If for some reason they have to be unavailable you can disable pop up message using following registry change:

Hive: HKEY _CURRENT_USER

Key: Network

Value Name: RestoreDiskChecked

DWORD Value: 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled

you may have to create the RestoreDiskChecked Dword if it is not present.

Solution 2:

Pasted from here:

I know this might be an old thread, but in answer to the OP's question: "Is there anything I can do to to prevent that message from popping up along with preventing the icon from displaying in the system tray?" Yes, here is one thing you can try:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\NetworkProvider\

Set or create a DWORD

RestoreConnection = 0

This works, at least in W8.1 !

Solution 3:

This solution worked for me on Windows 10. It uses both Moab and Victor's methods.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\NetworkProvider\

Create a DWORD value, name: RestoreConnection, value data: 0

HKEY _CURRENT_USER\Network

Create a DWORD value, name: RestoreDiskChecked, value data: 0