laptop tries to synch with network drives

RobAMerc

hi all.

I am wondeing if anyone can help.
my wifes laptop from work was constantly trying to synch ( or at least connect ) to network drives.

I found an icon on the explore bar and tinkered with the contents a bit to stop the synch happening.

Anyway since the next restart - the desktop has changed ( mising icons etc ), clicking "My Computer" takes and age and I am getting a "Program Manager" error saying files //xxxxx//etc are not acessable ( I presume network drives ).

UNfortuneatly the icon is now gone for me to turn sycnh back on, so I am lost as to how to restore things.

Could it be a profile issue and thats why the icons changed ?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Rob

ressem

The laptop was presumably set to sync for the purpose of keeping network files available when offline (i.e. unplugged from the office network/servers).

If you've disabled this then the files, programs and related icons that were contained within these shares are no longer available when at home.

Likelihood is that you can't restore these. Your wife will have to ask the IT person to do so when she's in the office.

RobAMerc

thanks for the reply.

I notice almost all of the icons have gone off the desktop - it must be that the profile has been deleted ?

thanks
rob

BostonB

How did you log in, the same name as before? Why do you keep asking about the profile. Did you do something with the profile?

You won't be able to fix the sync until its connected at work and can see the network files.

ressem

Shouldn't be anything to do with the profile.

More likely that the 'clean-up old shortcuts from the desktop' dialog appeared and someone clicked OK. As these shortcuts now point to a non-existent folder they might have been moved into the recycle bin.