Mapped drive when not connected

Hi there,

I can connect via VPN to a mapped drive using this procedure:

• start and login to the VPN

• Enter drive address

• Login to my network space

(work)

• Disconnect drive

• Disconnect VPN

Now if I "forget" to disconnect the mapped drive in windows and close the VPN...whenever I try to save something, my computer will hang/slowdown because it's (I assume) looking for the "mapped drive" for like 10 sec or so. Just trying to disconnect the "mapped drive" also takes 10 s.

Is there a way to avoid this ?