Disconnected NTFS drive
I have two issues that may or may not be related. I will provide details on both, just in case they are related. 1. Periodically, one or more of my mapped drives will suddenly show as disconnected. These are NTFS drives, mapped to my server. If you double click on the drive it will open and show the contents. If you right click and choose disconnect it will not look like it did anything, but it you do it a second time you get a message - this network connection does not exist. Before you attempt to disconnect if you go to map network drive that drive letter does not show in the list. If you disconnect and then reboot it usually recovers so that you can go in an re-map the drive to the original letter. 2. I have started getting an icon on the bottom of my screen - Interactive Services Detection. If I open it, there is a message, "A program running on this computer is trying to display a message." If I click on display the message it shows "C:\Windows\Temp\PFT6414.tmp\pftw1.pkg" and "The system cannont find the path specified". Any suggestions on either of these would be appreciated.
January 16th, 2011 7:28pm

Question 1: If you cannot disconnect mapped network drives, you can try to use this KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/172975 If you are in domain, you can try to get out of and rejoin the domain. Question 2: Go to service Right click - ‘Interactive Services’ from list in Window Select ‘Stop’ Right click - select Properties In ‘Startup type’ select ‘Disable’ Click “OK” Seven
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January 19th, 2011 4:20am

I am running windows 7 and so the steps are a bit different, however I think I found the area referred to in the KB article. Unfortunately Banyan vines is not running so that does not resolved my problem. Thanks for trying.
April 3rd, 2011 11:58am

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