Sometimes my work machine running Windows 10 loses it’s VPN connection, but when the VPN connection is re-established I’m finding the network drives no longer want to connect.

Click the Start button, then type in “cmd” and enter to bring up a command prompt. Then insert the following text:

net use p:

Which then spews out the following if you’re lucky:

Local name p:
Remote name \\yourcompanydomainname.com\projects
Resource type Disk
The command completed successfully.

After returning to navigate folders in Windows indeed the network file paths are working again – woohoo! I think in the old days Windows I occasionally had to re-run a .bat script to re-establish network file path connectivity, but this seems to be a bit easier.