Windows 7 Shortfalls

I am frustrated that I use to be able to map a network drive letter in Windows XP to an FTP server using either a combination of the LMHOSTS file and the NET USE command or via a free client by Novell called netdrive. However, Netdrive is no longer free for commercial use but at least their latest version works with Windows 7. It can be found here: http://www.netdrive.net/

A lot of people on the internet show how to map a folder to a network drive, but this doesn't associate a mapped drive letter as most programs require a drive letter to save a file with the exception of Microsoft ntbackup, go figure.

XP could always natively map an ftp source to a folder anyway.

Windows 7!! – The XP downgrade – and that wasn't MY idea.