QuickBooks Network Drive Not Showing Up

The Dude With Knowledge

• 1 min read

So, yeah, QuickBooks (insert vomit emoji here). So, if you are enjoying a new deployment or migration or upgrade like I have been (yay me) you probably have run into this stupid. Its either just tribal knowledge at this point, or hanging around on your user's computers for so long that it just doesn't actually come up. But man, I was racking my brain for why the network drives would not show up in the QuickBooks file browser when I was just trying to open the company files.

THEN I FOUND THE MAGICAL SOLUTION

  1. Go to HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
  2. Create a DWORD called EnabledLinkedConnections
  3. Set it to 1
  4. Reboot
  5. Profit

Or PowerShell it if you're a CLI champ

New-ItemProperty -Path HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System -Name "EnableLinkedConnections" -Value "1" -PropertyType "DWORD" -Force

This has to do with the old XPesque file browser that is being used in QuickBooks that is super wacky. I guess we just never noticed XP kinda sucked in its own way (jk XP I will love you forever <3).

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