Desktop Icon appears for optical drive and usb drives

Hello Magicant, and welcome to Seven Forums.

If you right click on the desktop icon for the drive when it's displayed, are you able to click on Delete to remove it.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Could you post a screenshot of your desktop when the drive icon is displayed just to make sure that something else may be causing it.

If you're referring to the Safely remove icon, yes it's normal.

If it's not the Safely Remove icon, then could you also post a screenshot of these registry locations below showing everything displayed in the right pane of them like below. I'll look to see if you may have CLSID entry there for this icon that you can remove to stop it.

Code:

 
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\ClassicStartMenu
 
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel
 
 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\ClassicStartMenu
 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel

Ah, ok. Go ahead and post what I posted for in my post above. I'll look to see if I may be able to spot the CLSID keys there that may be responsible for them.

Here is a screenshot of the registry entries.

Thanks.

Thank you.

Those two locations do not have the entries for them, but be sure to also post the registry screenshots from the HKEY_CURRENT_USER locations as well. They could be there as well.