Where are my network drives?

[robv14001]

I have multiple PCs and copy XYplorer to each (from the master installation). Up until today, if I have a network drive mapped, say W:, it shows up in both Windows Explorer and XY on all my PCs. And this holds for a newer Windows 11 Pro PC. I have a second Windows 11 Pro PC (I am setting up), and I did the normal install and copy of XY, yet it does not show my network drives. They show in Windows Explorer and in XY on other PCs. I seem to recall having to use NET USE on one PC to get this to work, but when I tried this on the second Windows 11 PC, it did not work. I can map a drive letter (that's already in use) in XY, but on reboot it goes away. I searched help and FAQ, and one suggestion was to add it to Rapid Access. I added it to Quick Access, and that did not help. XY has Rapid Access. I managed to add one share to it, but it renamed it. I didn't like that, so I right-clicked to Delete the entry from Rapid Access and discovered there seems to be no way to delete the entry. (It may disappear when I copy over from my master XTplorer installation.) It did not add the share (mapped to a drive letter) to the main tree. One note: all the PCs are Windows 10 or older (so old programs run according to old rules), but the Windows 11 PC where XY works is running 23H2 while the second Windows 11 PC where no network drives appear is running 25H2.

[robv14001]

I figured out how to delete Rapid Access entries -- right-click Rapid Access, not the individual entry. Still no luck on getting mapped drives to show up.

As an aside, I am also wondering why the Network list at the bottom of the tree has all the entries capitalized except for the one I just added (namely, the second Windows 11 PC). I cannot find a Rename anywhere. How did all the others become capitalized? If the names of the shares are foo-1, foo-2 (second Windows 11 PC), foo-3, etc., the names appear as FOO-1, foo-2, FOO-3, etc. in Network. I prefer capitalized in this list context, but cannot figure out how to capitalize foo-2 or for that matter why the others are capitalized. It seems when I do the map the spelling then might matter, but that doesn't explain why the drives do not show up in the main tree like C: (Windows drive) does.

[robv14001]

I found a XYplorer servers.ini file, and hacked it to change the name (uppercased it). This seems to have solved that problem.

Still no luck getting my mapped network drive letters -- that show up in Windows Explorer -- to show up in XYplorer. This is on a Windows 11 PC running 25H2. On a virtual clone machine running 23H2 I get the drive letters in both programs.

When I installed 25H2 on this clone PC, it wreaked havoc with ExplorerPatcher (which later seemed to recover on its own). It also made some other incompatible changes to my setup. I am suggesting the possibility that this newer version of Windows may have changed something that XYplorer depends on. I don't know the internals of either Windows in this area or XYplorer (at all). I'm just looking at possibilities.

[admin]

Many words. Try to describe your issue with fewer of them, and maybe attach a screenshot for clarity.

[robv14001]

It's been a while since I looked at this because the Windows 11 PC in question is powered down. When it's up again, if the XY problem shows up, I will upgrade to the latest level of XY. If the problem persists, I will submit an XY bug report; I will not follow up here. I will also not be shortening this post.