Mapped drives in XP Pro

[Dale]

there is one thing I want to know. Why on this earth
would microsoft design windows XP Pro not to reconnect
mapped network drives on startup. I read an article in
the knowledge base that said this was designed like this.
Will there be a fix in the future to allow mapped drives
to be recognized at startup?

 

[CWatters]

Someone on this thread suggests putting an entry in the hosts file but I've
not tried it...

http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/forums.asp?s=2&c=9&t=1676

Quote:
The reason for this is because the WINS browser service (or whatever it is),
is taking a long time to locate shared network resources. You can
circumvent this by adding the machines IP's and hostnames to the hosts file
located in this path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc Add each machine in
like the examples listed in the file, and this should improve the browse
time. Or you can right click > explore this location on the "My Network
Places " which should open up a new window with the Entire Network subgroup.
End Quote

Perhaps an MVP could comment on the above? or perhaps it would be possible
to write a script to reconnect?