Windows 10: Windows Explorer hides *SOME* files visible on Desktop

Hi all,

I'm having a problem with a brand new Dell XPS 15" computer regarding what files and folders it hides.
Here's a picture of what is happening.



I have tried all the usual suspects. It is not marked as "Hidden" in the properties. I always enable "seeing hidden files and folders" when I get a new computer in file explorer options. I have never had this happen to me on any computer and I am coming right off the heels of another windows 10 laptop. This is the only instance of this problem I have found yet, but I'm afraid of what other files it will hide for no reason and drive me insane.

Any ideas are appreciated.

Thanks

Windows 10 Pro Build 17134
Dell XPS 15" 9560
i7-7700HQ

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Big Surprise - Missing Desktop files

I routinely have files on my desktop that are not visible. The only Icon on a black desktop is the recycle bin. Therefore there is NO place for a file's icon to hide yet they are not there. Viewing the desktop with the File Explorer shows them ON the desktop
but, as stated, they are not!

 

File Explorer is not hiding empty USB drives, despite setting to 'hide empty drives'

In Win10 File Explorer, I've set the option to 'Hide empty drives' (View->Options->View).

When I click 'This PC', the empty drives are shown but greyed out. But in the Folder Navigation Pane (left side of window), the drives are shown normally -- they appear as just a drive letter, eg., "(L". I expect/want them to not be listed. Instead,
they are listed twice, once under 'This PC' and again under 'Desktop'. Five such empty USB drives are listed, so that's 10 lines that I wish would be hidden to allow more useful info to appear (cut down on scrolling).

Is there a way to hide empty drives, ie., drives with no media?

('Disk Management' nicely hides them in its top subwindow, and lists them as in its bottom list with 'no media'.)

I did a search on this and found lots of people similarly looking for solutions, but found no clear working solution (none that look worth trying scary-looking registry edits).

Is this a known Microsoft bug (if so, is there a bug status listing?), or is there some setting I'm not aware of?

Thanks for any help.

This is a desktop system running up-to-date Win10 as of Sept 15, 2016. If there's a better forum for this question, pls mention it.