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This looks more like a manual mapping that had the "Reconnect on logon" checkbox checked and is now so persistent that there was no "normal" way to undo it. In this case I was lucky that the folder in question had been moved an we are mapping it to user from another server to a different drive letter so I fixed this the ugly way. I renamed the folder and moved it so that the mount point would no longer work.

If you delete the whole folder for that drive letter, that should remove the mapping for you. Drive mappings have 6 or 7 individual registry keys for each mapping. You most likely have other entries in registry that point to the drive mapping, that you will need to clean up. Those could easily be found by searching registry for your UNC path Once you delete that mapping, and you are positive it is not being set someplace else, hopefully this should remove it completely for you.

If I have any funny issues surrounding mapped drives I usually do this anyway, because it can add hundreds of dead keys in the regsitry. Delete anything with in front of it and any other key under the MountPoints2 do not delete the MountPoints2 itself folder. To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks. Hey everybody. Any and all suggestions are welcomed.

Popular Topics in General Windows. Then I connect the drive again. As you can notice I restarted regedit. In fact, it will only come back if I boot Windows with the drive connected. As you found, these entries do not affect access to the mount folder whenever the drive is connected, because the junction still exists at the mount folder in the file system even if those registry entries are deleted.

Now I just have to recreate them. Volumes mounted as a folder are not stored in the registry. For example, i used Disk Managemen t to mount a drive as:. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Resources for IT Professionals. Sign in. United States English.

Ask a question. Quick access. Yes, another excellent question came up by one of my students: If a user mounts the volume to a mount point, what artifacts could we find for the USB?

Starting I think from Windows 8. Which means, that a USB could be mounted to a directory and then the user accesses the content of the volume using that directory. The scenario I will be using for this experiment, is a user mounts a volume USB to a directory and also removes the drive letter. Note s before you continue reading: 1. This post does not cover all USB artifacts registry keys, registry values, events, etc , only the ones needed to answer the question above 2.

The experiment in this post was repeated three times and they all led to the same results you will find below. Figure 1. Go ahead and remove the drive letter as seen in figure 1.

Just a check kind of thing!