Windows 10: How to remove non-existent mounted network drive from Quick Access?

Hello peeps,
About 2 years ago I wanted to mount the USB drive at the back of my EE Smarthub Broadband Modem as a network drive so I could access files properly, easily. I forget how I did this! I have concerns that this item is the cause of Windows Explorer and the File Open/Save requester are SOO slow when trying to make a new folder. Usually I click to make a new folder and nothing happens. Then I navigate to a different folder and back again, and there is a folder called New Folder.

Now I don't have EE Smarthub anymore, but "usb1" is still in my Quick Access menu, and if I click on it, Windows Explorer goes Not Responding for about 10 minutes, then I get this "windows cannot access \\192.168.1.254\usb1 message. Diagnosing that does not result in anything useful. I have tried to find and delete any mention of EESmarthub in my registry (found one entry). But still, I cannot Right Mouse Click on this item to try to remove or unpin it. Ideally I would like to UNMOUNT it, as it is not there!






Help please. Thanks, Mark.

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Quick Access bar

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

We would be glad to help you with the issue you are facing today. I understand the difficulty.

Remove items from Quick access.

I would suggest you to follow the below steps.

• Right click on the file or folder.
• Select the option “unpin from the quick access”

To pin items to an item already on the quick access bar.

Follow the below steps.

I would suggest you to create folder in the desktop screen & place all the files or folder which need to pin to the quick access.

• Open the quick access.
• Select the Desktop option.
• Right click on the folder & select the option “pin to quick access”

Hope this helps in resolving the issue. If the issue persists, do get back to us. We will be happy to assist you.



Thank you.

 

Pin to Quick Access on a Mapped Network Drive

If you use the Network Locations wizard to add a network location / subfolder as above, then you can right click it and pin it to your quick access list. This then works.

Microsoft, it is definitely a Windows 10 / Samba bug though as if you try to quick add from a mapped network share on a Linux based NAS (QNAP in my case) then although the item appears in the quick access list (e.g. S:\Backups) when you click on it
nothing happens. You have to browse the mapped drive, which defeats the purpose of a quick access list!

Please fix this as soon as possible as it is really annoying!

 

Remove network drive from Quick Access panel

From This PC I can see all my network drives, except for one, which is listed in the Quick Access panel: 192.168.0.20

I am unable to remove it from the Quick Access panel. It's also impossible to access the network drive, as I'm not in the 192.168.0.20 network.