How do u remove old workgroup drives ?

[Rastalovich]

Have a pc, that`s been a member of many a ms workgroup and has in it references to drives that were on these workgroups. Assigning new networked drives, u always get a very long list of all the drives it used to know.

I have no doubt there`s a way to search through ur registry or similar to find all the old references to old drives u may have had, but is there a simple way to do it via windows` tools/menus ?

Used to think the links went in Nethood, but they aint there.

Closest I`ve seen through explorer is to "cut" it, but that`s not even close.

 

[nathan]

my effort at drunken googling (i really think i have a drinks problem)

http://softheap.com/wipeouts/clean_my_network_places.html

 

[nepas]

as a rough guess

how about using device manager?

show hidden devices uninstall the none connected ones,clean the reg and bingo!!

i think

 

[Rastalovich]

my effort at drunken googling (i really think i have a drinks problem)

http://softheap.com/wipeouts/clean_my_network_places.html

Hmm gotta download a tool to do it ?

as a rough guess

how about using device manager?

show hidden devices uninstall the none connected ones,clean the reg and bingo!!

i think

Neh.

 

[JN]

Search the registry for one of the locations, they'll probably turn up all under the same key.

I have a vague feeling it's under a MRU hkey or something like that.

 

[Rastalovich]

Yeah, I guessed at that, and I did find them in 2 locations.

Deleted the references and... they still appear when u do a listing.

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Now, just after typing that I re-checked the registry and they`re back..

I`m wondering if/how they get put back there - so I check a source pc that used to have some of the drives and it holds references to drives it had in Nethood. Subsequently I deleted those.

So I`ll edit the registry again and see what happens. It could be that the pc reaches out and collects all the Nethood info, then stores it in the crawler.

EDIT: Just tried that and they appear in an explorer, but not in the registry. I`ve tried searching the C:\ drive too for files and contents and found nothing. Might be one of those stoopid things that gets collected at startup, so I`ll try a reboot.

 

[Toxteth O'Grady]

Are these any help?

http://www.ss64.com/nt/net_use.html

http://www.ss64.com/nt/net.html



TOG

 

[ionicle]

if it was me (and i know this aint particually helpful) i'd just wipe the OS and start again...problem solved..

 

[Rastalovich]

if it was me (and i know this aint particually helpful) i'd just wipe the OS and start again...problem solved..

Ah now..

U got me thinking..

 

[nathan]

is that not going a bit far just because it remembers the last browsed networks?

 

[Rastalovich]

U`d think so.

But we`re not just talking last.

And erm, we`re not just talking about a few.

I switch out drives on a weekly basis sometimes, what with work and everything.

Last post got me thinking that I *believe* a fresh install might bring them back also, not 100% sure on that, so I`m thinking of the pcs within the group holding the info and broadcasting it.

 

[nathan]

i dont think i understand what you mean by "workgroup drives". Do you mean mapped drives to share's on other pc's? Or just shares of other pc's showing in "my network places"?

 

[Rastalovich]

These would be drives that u would have allowed sharing on other pcs, so that when u goto MyNetworkPlaces they would show up on another.

The drives concerned are long gone, but still showup in an explorer listing.

Not mapped ones tho. I mean current mapped ones show up, but the ones concerned are not mapped.