benbeara

Well, I finally bit the bullet. I tried the fix outlined in this thread and it didn't work for me. So, I wiped my computer clean and reinstalled everything from scratch. All I can say is that it is nice to have things working again as I expect. And if anyone identifies what the root cause of this problem is/was, I'd be sure interested in finding out. Cheers!

When I saw the above solution, I thought my prayers were answered. But alas, it was a short lived dream. All I had to do to make these MountPoints2 entries disappear again was to fire up my FTP program and voila. I checked my another computer that does not experience this problem and its permissions are set the same my computer before applying the above solution. I'm not sure why, but I think a complete wipe of the drive is due after my project is complete.

EviLEd: My apologies if my last posting was confusing. You are correct to say that the mapped drive names revert to the original full path name. Here are some suggestions that one of my techie friends suggested but none of them proved fruitful: 1. WinsockXPFix.exe - no effect 2. Microsoft Network Diagnostic Tool (KB914440) - pointless utility Still scouring for a solution...

For some reason, things got a whole lot worse. Every time I opened Windows Explorer, all my mapped drive names disappeared. Before, it only happened when I used my FTP software or my computer had been left alone for a while. So, I went back to a temporary fix that at least allowed the renamed mapped drives to hang around a little longer. The temporary fix is as follows: 1. Open Windows Explorer. 2. Goto Tool -> Folder Options 3. General Tab - Click on "Restore Defaults" 4. View Tab - Click on "Restore Defaults" 5. View Tab - Click on "Reset All Folders" After this, you can configured the view that you want and it should work... for a while.

Oh my God!!! Someone else has posted a question regarding this matter! And here I thought I was going crazy and about to rip my hair out... I am experiencing the same issue as you. I have been scouring the Internet for months now (no lie!) and explained my problem to anyone who'd listen, but to no avail. I hate to say this but I don't think that your problem with related to nLite because I have no idea what that is. Personally, I think it has to do with a Windows patch/update. The reason being is that I never experienced this problem before and all of a sudden it started happening in late January, early February. I got so frustrated in February that I restored my hard disk with three different Norton Ghost images that I created over the past couple of years. All of them experienced the same problem. The reason why I think it might be a Windows patch/update issue is that the last image that I restored was basically the OEM installation on my IBM Thinkpad. I restored all my files first and then tested the mapping. Everything seemed to work okay, and then I did the massive Windows Update (about 72 patches?) and then it all started happening again. This happened without installing any of my other software. The strange thing is that I basically have the same configuration on another computer but it works fine. So, this leads me to believe that it might be something else, like a faulty network adapter? But after seeing your posting, I was wondering what were the chances of two faulty adapters causing the exact same problem? The only other thing that I started experiencing was that any of my DNS suffixes were lost as well and I would have to add them back in. However, this isn't as often as the renamed mapped drives. FYI, I can recreate this scenario on a regular basis. If I rename my mapped drive manually or apply a .reg file that contains all the MountPoints2 keys, all I have to do is fire up my FTP software, connect to a site, exit and voila! I open up Windows Explorer and all my renamed mapped drives are gone. I've posted this question on Experts Exchange and also submitted it to another tech forum, all to no avail. Sorry for the long winded story but I figured that the more we share our experiences, the quicker a resolution might appear!