Windows 10: Mapped drives available to 3rd party applications

Enable Linked Connections

How to make mapped drives available for 3rd party software (Windows 10)

  1. Open regedit
  2. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Microsoft -> Windows -> CurrentVersion -> Policies -> System
  3. On the right, you will see ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin, ConsentPromptBehaviorUser ... etc.
  4. Click on empty space, ADD DWORD(32bit), then name it "EnableLinkedConnections". Double click it and set the data to 1.
  5. Reboot and you will see the mapped drives showing.