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What are these strange entries in regestry MountPoint2?
Microsoft Windows 10 Pro, Version: 10.0.19041
I have an NAS that just won't mount on the first try, but does successfully mount on the second try using:net use x: \\nuc4\share /user:nuc raspberry /y
(Not the real password).But that's not why I am here.
(I have a batch file that mounts all of my network drives on startup using net use).
I looked at
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2
to see if the mount name was messed up, and I found a whole lot of nonsense entries (first screen shot).
So what are all of the extra entries for? For example, the only valid map starting with##br
is my MQTT broker at##broker#pi
. So, where did all of those ##br{chinese chars} entries come from and can I safely delete them?
In fact, there are so many of these questionable entries, should I just deleteComputer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2
altogether and let Windows generate new entries as needed?
There are several dozen similar entries including a lot that don't start with ## and a lot that are all chinese characters. (They could be Korean, but they are all Chinese to me)
The mount in question (above) shows as a folder inComputer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2
. No preceding ##. (Second screenshot).