Windows 10: How to eliminate an annoying nonexistent device

On my Win10 (Dell Precision M4800) laptop, I have an annoying "drive" which appears in the quick access panel on the left of W-Explorer and as part of the "Devices and drives" content of My PC. It corresponds to an Android cellphone which I once had, and tried to access via Bluetooth (it never made a reliable connection). The drive/device icon (no drive letter assigned) appeared right after I tried that, and has been there ever since. If I accidentally click it, it spends forever trying to do something. It has no right-click properties, I can't find it anywhere under Device Manager including under Bluetooth, Disk Drives, Portable devices or any other sensible thing. I've scanned for hardware changes to no avail. It does not show up as a device under Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Devices and Printers. There is no program that I could uninstall with a name suggesting the phone maker (as publisher or program name).

Is there a better way to find out what this thing "is" and maybe even get rid of it? Or do I just learn to live with it?

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How can I eliminate the annoying floating little sign on Chinese input

Hello,

Thank you for replying.

Since the issue does not persists in safe mode I suggest you to do a clean boot and see which program is causing the issue.

Please refer the link below for clean booting steps:

Placing your system in Clean Boot state helps in identifying if any third party applications or startup items are causing the issue. You need to follow the steps from the article mentioned below to perform a Clean Boot.




https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/929135



Note:Once you are done with the troubleshooting, perform the steps in "How to reset the computer to start as usual after troubleshooting with clean boot "to reset computer as usual.


Hope this helps. If the issue remains unresolved, please get back to us and we would be happy to help.

 

How can I eliminate the annoying floating little sign on Chinese input

Hi Karthicka_R,

Glad to hearing from you!

it will happen nothing when you hover the arrow on that symbol, and nothing happen on click, right click as well, cannot move it, just block your sight.

This issue was not always appear, just occasionally appear after switch to Chinese input, i guess this is a system bug?

BTW - it's fine and no problem on safe mode...

Thanks,

HK User

 

You should see it listed in Settings > Devices > Bluetooth & other devices. You should be able to click on it and remove it there.

 

Sorry, should have mentioned that it does not show up in Settings / Devices / Bluetooth..., whether Bluetooth is turned on or off.

And a further nevermind, and thanks. Apparently if you toggle Bluetooth off and on a few times, it eventually shows up, and with a handful of remove requests, it's gone. Again, thanks.