Hi Hearsepilot, yes indeed "Map Network Drive" did the job a few days ago after one of the so many restore operations that I had to do on the Win10 machines after HP messed up my printer icons, see link below. Thanks for the tip. I'm still mainly using Win7, reliable, no issue, just keeps on working the way it should, and secured by Norton 360, so no security issues.

HP_Smart | Win10 (| both) deleted Printer Icons in Devices & Printers