From: "Geo." 

I have shortcuts to 4 remote drives on my desktop, been there for years and
names have never changed. I don't know about the names in "my
computer" as I add and remove those daily.

Geo.

"Chris Robinson"  wrote in
message news:3E4CCE2D.D7500CF4{at}NOSPAMtotalise.co.uk...
> I'd doubt it as this has happened with a mapped drive to one of our
servers
> (doesn't go offline often).  Also I have a couple of drives mapped to
different
> shares on the same server - some of them have lost the names I gave them
> whereas others haven't.  One of our users is also experiencing this
annoyance.
>
> Chris.
>
> "Geo." wrote:
>
> > I've not seen it myself but try booting your system while one of the
remote
> > systems is offline and then bring the remote online. Does that cause it
to
> > happen?
> >
> > Geo.
> >
> > "Chris Robinson"
 wrote in message
> > news:3E4BA709.D0330551{at}NOSPAMtotalise.co.uk...
> > > I have a number of mapped drives on my system (Win2k Pro, SP3) and I
> > > rename them to more useful names.  However, I've noticed that every so
> > > often (I couldn't say the frequency of this) Windows will
"forget" the
> > > drive name I've assigned (e.g. "work") and revert
back to "work on
> > > \\server\share\dir" - anyone know why this is?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Chris.
> > >
>

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