Orphan Mapped/Local drives, how to get rid of "mapped" drives...

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I used to have 2 mapped (Y & Z)drives to NAS. The NAS went offline and the
mapped drives in explorer went strange. They no longer exist as mapped
network drives but continue to show up in explorer "My computer". If i try to
disconnect the drives with gui then it tells me nothing is mapped.

I try (from cmd) <net use> and variant options like /delete to see mapped
drives and again nothing is mapped (makes sense)..

Opening them gives an error that says the server is not up or the data has
been moved. I can map to the new NAS with other letters than Y,Z., but when i
try to map to Y,Z I get a screen flicker and back to the map dialogue with no
change.

I looked in the registry at Win XP registr
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\##ComputerName#ShareName
_LabelFromReg=<description of drive mapping>
(string REG_SZ)

When I deleted these keys, the mapped drives showed up in explorer as
unnamed local drives (makes sense since there are no more descriptions for
the map and name).

However, these unnamed "local" are also not desired. I had read that maybe
SAV 10 may have something to do with this and I booted up in safe with
networking with minimal services and they were not there. but back into
regular mode and they are still there....

any suggestions on how to remove the mapped/local orphan drives?

thanks for the help....
 

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