Windows 10: Long delay trying to save to network drive

I have windows 11, but this was a problem even on windows 10. I am on PC A and I right click save file. in the address bar I type in \\<ip address of PC B>I see all the network share drives on PC B but they are all greyed out for about 30 seconds. I can then open a drive and save the file. If I don't go back to the root of the drives, to see them all I can save right away, but if I go back to pick a different drive, I have to wait again. If I open file explorer and type the name of PC B or the ip address without trying to save a file, I can open it right away.This was an issue for a lo

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Cannot save files to network drives anymore

Hi Brendo,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community forums.

• Which account was used to sign in to Office, when the user attempted to save files to the mapped drive?
  

This could be due to the incorrect user information used. You may want to try the steps listed below and check if it works for you:

• Open Word 2016, and navigate to
  File > Account.
  
• Sign out of all the accounts under User Information.
  
• Restart Office, navigate to
  File > Account.
  
• Sign In to use the work email for user information.
  
• Now, try saving the Office documents to the mapped drive.
  

If the issue persists, as the issue is related to Server, I suggest you to post your query in the
TechNet
forums, where we have support professionals who are well equipped with the knowledge on Servers to assist you with this.



Regards,

 

No network connectivity after Windows 10 Upgrade

Hi,

Sorry for the delay in response:

I would suggest you to run Network troubleshooter.



Try the following steps to run the troubleshooter:

• 
  Click "Search" and type "Troubleshooting" without quotes and hit enter.
  
• 
  Click “View All”
  
• 
  Select “Network Adapter”
  
• 
  Click next to run the troubleshooter.
  
  Hope this helps.
  

 

Delay mounting network drive at boot?

I am starting a new thread as suggested as the other threads on this subject are so old! however as Microsoft does not appear to read any of these forums and more pointedly does nothing to solve the problem I will ask again.

I have three NAS boxes holding somewhere about 30TB spread over 12 drives and sometimes they are logged on at boot and sometimes not. Surely it can't be too difficult to delay the network acquisition until later in the boot sequence. In the meantime does
anyone know which application is responsible for network acquisition so I can look into this myself!

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Other thread:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-networking/delay-mounting-network-drive-at-boot/e25538d4-6f85-442c-ac43-3f8ba2e9bf75?page=4#LastReply