“Windows could not reconnect all network drives” solution

One annoyance that had been occurring on one of my Windows 8.1 systems was that, upon booting up, there would always appear this annoying message in the system tray saying that “Windows could not reconnect all network drives”.

The solution involves the following:

1. Open Group Policy Editor (press Win key and type “group policy”), then go to:

Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Logon
and enable Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon

2. Open the registry editor (press Win key and type “regedit”), then go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SYSTEM > CurrentControlSet -> Control -> NetworkProvider

and create the following key as DWORD: RestoreConnection

Leave it at its default value of 0.

After reboot the annoying “Windows could not reconnect all network drives” message will no longer appear.