As the title says whenever I drag a file over a disconnected mapped network drive Windows Explorer freezes.
After a minute it unfreezes again. Is there any way to fix this behaviour?
It looks like this when it freezes 
Answer
To minimize traffic, Windows doesn't re-establish an idle/disconnected mapped drive connection until you go to use it.
Dragging a file over it in Explorer is enough for the OS to consider that you're trying to use it.
Similarly (haven't actually tested just now, but based on memory), if you have a hard drive that's sitting idle and had been spun down, and you dragged a file over it's letter in Explorer, it'd spin up, and Explorer would freeze for a bit until it heard back from the drive (or gave up waiting for it).
Unfortunately it's the price you pay for the pretty, easy to access mapped drives, and less energy consumption. :)
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