Windows

Map A Network Drive From The Toolbar

Posted by on Nov 29, 2005 | 7 Comments

If you find yourself using the map drive feature on a regular basis, you may want to add this as an option to your toolbar making it slightly easier to perform the task. To do so, open My Computer, right click the Toolbar, and click Customize (of course, make sure that your Toolbar is not locked).

From the Customize Toolbar dialog box, highlight the Map Drive option under the list of Available toolbar buttons and click Add. You may also want to repeat this procedure and add the Disconnect option to the Toolbar as well.

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  • Karen Dehn

    It didn’t work. It gives me an error saying that it may not be a valid url but it works just fine if I copy the same url to the address bar.

  • Anonymous

    This script has several flaws:
    * It assumes that there is already a SCRIPT tag in the page, it will fail if there is no SCRIPT tag
    * the async attribute was introduced with HTML 5 and thus will most probably be ignored by most browsers if your site is not an HTML 5 document
    * what is the point to add a script element via Javascript while you could directly write the original Google script element with the async attribute ?

    • http://www.jakeludington.com Jake Ludington

      Every JS fails without a script tag on the the page. asynchronous JS won’t speed up a page for IE6 or IE7, but page rendering is awful in those browsers regardless.

      If you read the background on why it is faster, you would have a more clear understanding of how the page is sped up.

  • Anonymous

    Plus the fact that it does not seem to be significantly faster.

    • http://www.jakeludington.com Jake Ludington

      It is in fact significantly faster.

      • Anonymous

        After some tests, it is not significantly faster, for the fact that the async attribute is ignored and is invalid HTML 4 and XHTML 1, except if your website is HTML 5 of course, which is far to be the case of most websites on the web. Changing from http to https does improve speed however.

        Of course that any JS requires a script tag. I was meaning that if you do not have a previous script tag, the script will fail. However I was myself wrong with this statement: there is at least one script tag. The others flaws are still valid.

  • http://techlogon.com Roy

    Thanks for the tip about https – had been using the deprecated http Js call until now