Restoring Network Connections - An error reconnecting to ...

I've got a permanent drive mapping of Z: to a network drive (it's a USB drive that is plugged into a Synology NAS that's always switched on).

After waking up my Windows 11 Pro (25H2 26200.7462) from its "Sleep", that message below always pops up. After clicking OK and going to Explorer, I see the drive Z is there and accessible. There seems to be a window of time where it tries to connect and is unable to, pops up that message, and then some short time after that it finds it is unable to. If it wasn't a modal dialog it might have the ability to take it away.

Thoughts - this has been a very frequent thing for me, I've had it when that drive was plugged directly into my router, and on my previous Windows computers too. In the case of this particular one, I disabled the built-in wifi because it was too slow and have a much faster external USB wifi thing with antennas on it. I wonder if connecting to the remote drive happens before that USB is enabled. I doubt this because it happened prior to having this. I don't suspect the Synology NAS because it also happened when I had the drive plugged into the router (but stopped that because transfer rates were slow).

I'm hoping I can delay that reconnecting to the drive by a second and then this won't happen. Any ideas? Oh, and yes I do realize that "if this is my only problem I should feel grateful", yes I do, but it doesn't hurt to ask if this is a known issue.

One thing to add, this only happens if I've previously put my computer to sleep. If I instead just do WindowsKey + L to lock it, I don't get this. Makes sense because it's basically fully running and is just stopping the screen output.

I absolutely believe you're onto something there, but the device manager options for my remote/USB wifi isn't offering me the Power Management tab for some unknown reason. Maybe it only offers that for internal devices. I did notice that it was unpowered just now when I came back to the computer, it had no lights on. As soon as I pressed the keyboard the wifi device lit up. Maybe it has a slow boot-up time and can't take connections as quickly as it can turn its LED on.

I've shown the screenshot of the device manager properties with no Power tab, and a couple of screenshots of some of the other fields I found that might be relevant. Maybe it's something that can only be achieved via registry fields. Note that the first Network Adaptor is the built-in wifi and is perma-disabled.

Then try to use power management to keep power on both your USB host controller and USB hub.

I just looked at your specs. Sorry I should have done that first. More than likely that laptop does not sleep (S3) but uses modern standby instead (S0).
Give this a gander.

glasskuter said:

I just looked at your specs. Sorry I should have done that first. More than likely that laptop does not sleep (S3) but uses modern standby instead (S0).
Give this a gander.

Enable or Disable Network Connectivity in Modern Standby in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable network connectivity during Modern Standby while on battery and/or plugged in on a Windows 10 and Windows 11 device. In Windows 10 and Windows 11, there are two power models for PCs: S3 and Modern Standby (S0 Low Power Idle). The S3 power...

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Thanks for that. I tried all the different methods in there and ensured there was no power saving enabled for any of my USB devices, still no luck.

I at least discovered during this that I can avoid the situation by just WinKey + L locking it instead of putting it to sleep. It's powered 24/7 so battery never comes into it. As I wrote in the original post, it's not a huge problem and I can live with it even without the WinKey + L that already makes it better.