Windows 8.1 search of network drives shows UNC path based results

How do I go about showing the network drive based path as opposed to the UNC based path in Windows 8.1?
In Windows 7 when the user searched for files on a network drive it displayed results that contained the network drive. In Windows 8.1 these searches yield the UNC
path.
For example, Windows 7, if I search for TestFile.docx on Z: it will show a result such as "Z:\SomeFolder\SubFolder\TextFile.docx"
Windows 8.1, if I search for TestFile.docx on Z: it will show a result such as "\\SomeServer\SomeFolder\SubFolder\TextFile.docx"

Hi,
Actually, I tested in my Windows 8.1 system, the result is that it does show (example)"Z:\folder" as the search result, like as Windows 7 system, here's the snapshot:
Or am I missunderstanding something? a snapshot from your result would be helpful.
Yolanda Zhu
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