How to completely disable SMB in Windows 11

[Marcos PD]

I have a QNAP NAS that I've been connected to via SMB at some point in the past. I later removed those SMB connections to the NAS, but at some point my NAS started blocking the IP of my PC because it was still sending login requests via SMB using my Windows account, and those login requests were failing. I could not get the requests to stop, so I decided to disable SMB in my Windows. I disabled SMB v1, v2, v3 and SMB Direct and still my PC is sending SMB requests to the NAS.So the NAS is still blocking my PC IP every few minutes.I can see in my PC resource monitor that the process System is se

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