Unmap network drive windows 8

I cannot find any trace of the old drive in Device manager or other. Hi WarrenLockner ,. Welcome to the Microsoft Community Forum.

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Cookie Settings. Learn why people trust wikiHow. Download Article Explore this Article methods. Tips and Warnings. Related Articles. Method 1. Click This PC. It's a computer-shaped item on the left side of the File Explorer window. You may have to scroll up or down here to find it. Click the Computer tab.

You'll find this in the upper-left side of the File Explorer window. Clicking it prompts a toolbar to appear at the top of the window. It's in the "Network" section of the toolbar. A drop-down menu will appear. Make sure you click the bottom half of this icon and not the top half, as clicking the top half will open a new Network Drive window. Click Disconnect network drive.

This option is at the bottom of the drop-down menu. Display the list of current network drives attached Type net use and hit enter — this will display the network drives. Unmap the drives you want to unmap. Now you have disconnected the network drive. Learn more. Asked 8 years, 8 months ago. Active 4 years, 9 months ago. Viewed 2k times. As noted, I'm on a Windows 8 machine using Visual Studio Any help would be much appreciated. Improve this question. DawnMage77 DawnMage77 75 1 1 silver badge 8 8 bronze badges.

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