When you no longer require access to a mapped network drive, you can clear the Mapped Network Drive Cache in Windows 11/10.

How to map a network drive The top reason for mapping network drives to your Windows 10 installation is easy access.

Usually the mappings are reserved for network paths, but it can be useful for development (or even just as a shortcut) to map a local path to a drive letter.

Using a little-known feature of Windows 10 and 11, we can automatically designate a specific drive letter to Microsoft OneDrive at startup every time we boot up our PC.