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The company my wife worked for insisted that her laptop be mapped to one of

their network drives. She did so, but now no longer works for them. The

mapped drive still shows up under "computer" and she always gets a message

that some drives cannot be connected.



How can we completely remove this previously mapped drive from her system?



Thanks!


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In the 'Computer' menu, click 'map network drive', and uncheck 'connect at

logon'



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Mark L. Ferguson



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"Raas" <Raas@discussions.microsoft.com>wrote in message

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Hi Raas,



To do this, click the start orb and then click 'Computer'. In the bar at the

top is a number of options, and one of these is 'Map network drive'. Click

it. This brings up a dialogue with the heading 'What network folder would you

like to map?', and underneath is a check box 'Reconnect at logon'. You need

to click that check box to remove the tick (ie, the check box should be

clear). You might also need to delete the contents of the 'Folder:' box as

well. Click 'Finish' when you are done and close 'Computer'.

Dwarf



"Raas" wrote:

I had previously tried this, however when I get to the dialog box that asks

for the mapping, I uncheck the check box but the 'finish' button is not

enabled. If I select a folder from the dropdown box, the 'finish' button is

enabled, but the system wants to map a drive again. If I clear the folder

area completely, the 'finish' button is no longer enabled. In otherwords,

this option doesn't work. I don't want to simple have the mapped drive not

show, I want it gone, and this option doesn't work for either scenario unless

I'm able to be connected to the drive while selecting the option. I can't do

that. She no longer works there.



Any other suggestions would be quite welcome.



Thanks.



"Dwarf" wrote:

"Raas" <Raas@discussions.microsoft.com>wrote in message

Can you not just right click it's icon and choose disconnect?

Don't have any mapped on here to test but us what I've done in previous

versions



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This may sound weird but it works.



If you have access to a network with shares simply

map a new network drive using the same letter.

You will then be able to use the disconnect option

from windoze explorer.



If you don't have access to a network with a share

Share a folder on your PC, repeat the above process.



One thing that is a pain is that when a network share is

no longer available the system will hang while it tries to find it.

This happened on XP also.



Good Luck,



Robert







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I've done that. The drive says it's disconnected, but when I go to

'computer' it still shows in the drive lists but with a great big red X on

it. I also still get the message that the system cannot find a network drive

and points to this one since it's all she has ever had on her computer.



Right clicking the drive doesn't even give the option to try to remove or

delete the drive.



Disk management doesn't give that option either, since it doesn't recognize

the drive at all. Only in startup and when going into 'computer' or "my

computer" as XP users would know it.



I just want all references to it gone. Disabling doesn't cut it.

Disconnecting does either.



Thanks for trying though!



Raas



"Jay" wrote:

Thanks, but I don't have access to a network with shares. She is at home

now, no network, no share point, etc.







"Robert Martin" wrote:

In the hopes that this will help others:



I received information through another source that directed me to use the

following in order to completele remove the unwanted, disconnected, mapped

network drive from my Vista system:



Start>run>type 'cmd'>then run the command 'net use y /d'

then reboot.



It works! the 'y' in the command is the drive letter, could be anything

you have on your computer that you want to remove.



Good Luck!







"Raas" wrote: