Mapped drives can be very useful when it comes to moving data around on a network but sometimes you don’t want the PC you’re working on to reconnect upon bootup. Sure you can simply disconnect, but we’re all human and forgetting to do that is very possible. No problem though, Windows has a built in feature that will disable all persistent connections.

First thing you’ll want to do is load up regedit (Start -> Run then type regedit and press the Ok button) and scroll to this path HKEY_USERS -> .Default -> Software -> Microsoft -> WindowsNT -> CurrentVersion -> Network -> Persistent Connections. Once there look for the SaveConnections string value and give it the value ‘no’.

Now when you boot your system your computer will not automatically restart/re-enable all old network connections.