Map drive is not recognized by my application in windows 8, 8.1 and windows 10

Question

I am not able to retrieve map drive when I run my application as an administrator. I am logged in as other user having administrative privilege. When I run my application without run as administrator map drive is shown. I want to show the map drive when I run my application as run as administrator. Please provide me the solution for this it only happens when I run my application in windows 8,8.1 and windows 10. I have developed my application in visual studio 2010 using vc++.

Answer 1

This is the normal behaviour (that I don't like) since Windows Vista.

You need to set EnableLinkedConnections in the registry. You find the background of this in this article.

If your program needs this access you are forced to change this value in your installer.