start and before users start logging on .
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There are network-shared folders located on TrueCrypt volumes. If you configure these
volumes as system favorites, you will ensure that the
network shares will be automatically restored by the operating system each time it is restarted.
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You need each such volume to be mounted as
the same drive letter each time the
operating system starts.
Note that, unlike the regular (non-system) favorites,
system favorite volumes use the pre-boot authentication password and, therefore, require your system partition/drive to be encrypted (also
note it is not required to enable caching of the pre-boot authentication password).
System favorite volumes
can be configured to be available within TrueCrypt only to users with administrator privileges (select
Settings > ‘
System Favorite Volumes ’ > ‘
Allow only administrators to view and dismount system favorite volumes in TrueCrypt ’). This option should be
enabled on servers to ensure that system favorite volumes cannot be dismounted by users without
administrator privileges. On non-server systems, this option can be used to prevent normal
TrueCrypt volume actions (such as ‘
Dismount All ’, auto-dismount, etc.) from affecting system
favorite volumes. In addition, when TrueCrypt is run without administrator privileges (the default on
Windows Vista and later), system favorite volumes will not be displayed in the drive letter list in the
main TrueCrypt application window.
To configure a TrueCrypt volume as a system favorite volume, follow these steps: 1. Mount the volume (to the drive letter to which you want it to be mounted every time).
2. Right-click the mounted volume in the drive list in the main TrueCrypt window and select
‘
Add to System Favorites ’.
3. The System Favorites Organizer window should appear now. In this window, enable the
option ‘
Mount system favorite volumes when Windows starts ’ and click
OK .
The order in which system favorite volumes are displayed in the System Favorites Organizer
window (
Favorites > ‘
Organize System Favorite Volumes ’) is