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.

rvcjew said:

These have some things you could try.

windows 10 - Deleting quick access links from disconnected network drive in Explorer - Super User

If nothing else works.

Reset and Clear Recent Items and Frequent Places in Windows 10 Will remove them all though.

Hi,
Thanks, tried the first, but it assumes you can right mouse click on the item... the second one, I eventually opted to wipe the whole Quick Access list. This worked, thanks! I hope this means that damned thing is gone, and not just the link is gone, but it does seem I am able to create New Folders quite a lot faster in Windows Explorer, so this is VERY good and was the main purpose of this query.
Thanks again,
Mark.