Windows 7 mapped drive visibility problem

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I just installed Windows 7 RTM on my developer machine. Right after the installation I added my domain account to local administrators group and added the machine to company's domain.

We use local folder mapped as a network drive to store dll's that we reference. The drive is created by:

subst S: "D:\DllFolder"

The drive mapped ok, however the following issue occured:
When I tried to open a solution using Visual Studio 2008 it told me that I needed to run it as administrator to be able to use the asp.net projects hosted on IIS.
I run VS as administrator and the solution opened fine but that VS instance could not see the S: drive.

Can anyone tell me how can I work around that problem?
(The temporary solution that works is to disable the UAC, but that is not acceptable in the long run.)

Appreciate any suggestions.

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Subst is user specific, you need to run subst as administrator as well.

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