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How much resources do mapped drives use?

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by tom.morris

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I have a user who insists on running a logon script that maps 10 drives upon logon. This user also says her PC runs "slowly". Won't the mapping of unecessary drives slow down her PC by using system resources?

The drives are all on the LAN, soshe isn't mapping anything acrosss a WAN.

Can having too many drives mapped signifcantly slow down a PC?

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by fossil

Persistant drive mapping will slow down the logon process. PC runs slowly is relative and more/better description is needed. Something like "it takes 45 seconds to start IE" or "booting takes 6 minutes" . The "my PC is slow" bit wastes too much time with no real target to shoot at. Ask for details. No there are not a loct of resources consumed. Memory is minimal (measureable but of no significane) as is CPU. The only exception is if the mapped resource becomes unavailable, it can cause "hanging" until the attempt to use the reference times out.

I personally have 10 persisant mappings with no negative effect (NT 4.0 SP5)

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