Windows 10: File explorer slow/hangs when mapped drive not available

Hi all,


I have mapped network drives that are only available when my laptop is connected to certain networks work, home, etc. When I open file explorer when I have mapped drives not in my current network, it's very slow to open the "This PC" view, and the progress bar just keeps loading in the address pane. This also tends to entirely lock up file explorer, such that I'm unable to open other explorer windows.


Is there any way to tell Windows to not delay itself when it can't connect to mapped drives? Otherwise, I'm just going to have to delete my mapped drives, which kind of sucks.


Thanks,

Alex


Windows 10 Pro 20H2 19042.572

Dell Precision m5510

24 GB RAM





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I eventually have to Restart File Explorer using Task Manager.

What seems to work is unmapping and re-mapping. When I unmap, it takes an ungodly amount of time. When I re-map, it re-maps quickly.

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I did, it has no effect. I also check the NAS devices they support SMB 2.0. Also I have several other computers on my home network they work fine with the mapped drives and They do not have SMB 1 turned on. So it is something that happened to the computer in question.

 

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Sorry I got nothing more to suggest then.

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