Desktop icons show disk drive

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some of my icons have a disk drive on them. how did they
get the disk drive on them? how can i get rid of it?
 
some of my icons have a disk drive on them.
It would help if you were a bit more specific.
how did they get the disk drive on them?
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We can only guess, and guessing may not help you. For instance, does anyone
else have access to your computer?
how can i get rid of it?
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You can change the icon by right-clicking the shortcut, and choosing
Properties. On the shortcut tab, choose the [Change Icon...] button. Now,
this is where it can get interesting. If you are seeing a disk drive, a
likely source for that icon is %SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll. You can
choose from other icons in that resource.

Or, depending on what the shortcut is for, the target itself probably offers
other icons. If so, from the Change Icon dialog, you can choose the
[Browse...] button, navigate to the executable's folder, and choose
resources there that include icons.
 
I have a dell laptop that we are building an image on.
Some of the icons (apps that are on the network)have a
disk drive on the icon. Other laptops and desktop pc's do
not have the disk drive icon. I do not have this icon
(with the disk drive) on my other machines that I could
use on other machines. The icon with the disk drive has
never appeared as an option before.

Noone else accesses the image machines.
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some of my icons have a disk drive on them.
Click to expand...
It would help if you were a bit more specific.
how did they get the disk drive on them?
Click to expand...
We can only guess, and guessing may not help you. For instance, does anyone
else have access to your computer?
how can i get rid of it?
Click to expand...
You can change the icon by right-clicking the shortcut, and choosing
Properties. On the shortcut tab, choose the [Change Icon...] button. Now,
this is where it can get interesting. If you are seeing a disk drive, a
likely source for that icon is %SystemRoot%\system32 \SHELL32.dll. You can
choose from other icons in that resource.

Or, depending on what the shortcut is for, the target itself probably offers
other icons. If so, from the Change Icon dialog, you can choose the
[Browse...] button, navigate to the executable's folder, and choose
resources there that include icons.
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When you look at the shortcut properties, what do you see for an icon? And
from what file? Can you change it to the icon you do want?

Without having your particular set up to test with, I wonder if Windows
cannot access the LAN-based resource before it times out, so goes with a
default value? Windows normally caches icons, so that should not be a
problem. But your description has me wondering.
 
When I select an icon with no disk, it changes to selected
icon and puts a disk on it automatically.
 
You're saying that the shortcut (not icon) has the correct icon, but when
you select such a shortcut, the icon then and only then changes to the disk
icon?

Does this only happen when you left-click to select, or also when you
right-click? And, when you look at the shortcut properties, what do you see
for an icon? And from what file? Can you change it to the icon you do want?
 
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