>>Hi Fabio,
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>>>if windows 10 is ok and windows 7 is bug,
>>>why Notepad, cmd, explorer ...
>>>with elevate show mapped drives ?
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>>Because M$ in it's wisdom was never conform to it's own standards? One building is not knowing what the next one does? More varporware then anything else? MICROSOFT? They are tiny and weak, and for the moment Nadella is focused in other spheres.
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>>I'mean even if you don't share my POV on mapped drives, think about Walters message:
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>>>>>>>>If I ask my kids about paths and disk locations they are glaring at me: They have absolutely no concept of all of that. Why do you think there is no file explorer on an ipad, galaxy tab, and mobile phones? Because they are users and where documents are exactly saved is totally invisible to the user.
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>>That's the way it goes and drive letters come more and more obsolete. This layer will be wrapped away from CKI anyway.
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>If security is paramount in the decision of removing rights of a mapped drive when elevating credentials, why would you still have access to the share it points to (or any other share for that matter), the same logic you guys are applying to the mapped drive should be applied to the share and the elevated user should have lost access to it, otherwise it makes no freaking sense. Something else you all are missing about shares is that they can be mapped using different credentials, so the current user does not necessary need to have access to the UNC.

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most simple example:
Open notepad as admin File->Open, select documents on left hand pane. This is the admins folder. I have a link to a share there (this share looks the same for every user, but is different folder on the server) and I end up in the admins share.

So windows (8.1) seems to act consistent on that.

The right way would be to log off, log on as admin and do the job there. There simply should be no need to access the users shares / mapped drives etc. for administrative jobs.