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I connected a USB flash drive to my laptop and it is displayed with this strange icon in the Windows Explorer:

Windows Explorer Flash Drive Icon: Devices with red backgrounds and a white letter L

It's certainly not the default icon and I didn't change any icon settings in windows. Its not stored on the flash drive itself, other flash drives have the same icon. I've used Google reverse image search and found a few screenshots that show the same icon but no hints where it comes from.

What is this icon or how can I check which application causes this icon to appear?

Edit: It's a Lenovo laptop and the L on the red background looks suspiciously like the Lenovo logo, so it's probably from some preinstalled software. I would still like to know how and why this icon is shown.

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  • When Windows 8 was released. Microsoft added a feature to allow users to select the device icon and/or image they wanted to use. The fact "other drives have the same icon" indicate you accidentally made a change to which icon you wanted for removable drives.
    – Ramhound
    Aug 9, 2018 at 18:17
  • @Ramhound Changing the icon for a particular drive is easy, but changing the default icon seems to require modifying the registry. I've looked up the entry in regedit but there are no default icons set up.
    – kapex
    Aug 9, 2018 at 18:30

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Reset to default

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