Update Login Credentials for Mapped Network Drives on Windows 10

Mapping a Network Drive or Folder in Windows 10 is easy, mapping a drive means that getting permanent access to a drive or folder which is currently residing on another computer, File server, and network storage devices in a different location. While mapping a drive windows will assign a separate drive letter to that particular drive or folder and it can be accessed with a single click on windows. Most of the corporate users benefit from this feature, in any organization or company computers are used to connect to the Domain network, and to access the domain network users need to enter the user name and password. These credentials are very mandatory to log in a system and to map a network drive. In organizations there is one policy called Maximum password age policy, this policy states that users must change the password from 70 days to 180 days, these days can be different from one organization to another. Once we change the password the windows will ask to login again, but all the old passwords are saved in windows credentials. It affects a lot of apps like outlook, one drive, and mapped networks, today in this article we are going to see how to Update Login Credentials for Mapped Network Drives on Windows 10

Update Login Credentials for Mapped Network Drives:

Open run command by pressing Windows + R and type control and hit enter, this will open the control panel.

Set view by to large icons from the top right corner. Click on Credential Manager

Click on Windows Credentials and choose the Mapped Network drive folder name.

Expand that credentials and choose edit, and from the next windows under Edit Generic Credentials, Enter your username and recently changed password. And save it.

Note: If you are mapped a lot of network drive then this method is little tedious, Editing all the mapped network drive password is little difficult so you can Remove all the credentials from the credentials manger and once you change the password windows will prompt for new credentials for mapped network and windows will automatically save the new password.  Also clearing old credentials will also fix the outlook password issues.