Can anyone tell me what this icon is.. It crashes finder?

[nethfel]

Hi all,

I've got a icon on my top bar that I don't recognize and I'm not sure what it is. If I try to click on it (left of right) it causes finder to reset all of the icons up there.

Here's the picture:

 

 

I don't recognize it from any of my "real" macs, so any tips on what it is and how I can disable it (or at least prevent it from showing in the bar so I don't accidentally click it while trying to hit something else) to prevent it from continuing to crash out that aspect of finder would be great!

 

 

[Allan]

Hi and Welcome to InsanelyMac Forum!

 

Check in your System Preferences, if you have some option enabled.

[nethfel]

Hmm, I'll check.  right now I'm at work on a iMac w/ Yosemite 10.10.1, and I can't find anything in its system preferences that would make that icon appear.  I also checked my finder preferences here and can't seem to find anything on my iMac to duplicate it...  I guess I'll have to check my system report at home to see if it's some piece of hardware that's being mis identified unless someone else has an idea?  

[nethfel]

Update: 

I think I've figured out what it is - it looks like a new generation of the pccard.menu icon that would normally appear on older laptops when you insert a pcmcia (pc card) or express card.  I have no idea why it's appearing on my desktop though as I do not have a pc card slot on it (well, not yet, I've ordered the wifi adapter card from osxwifi so I can have functional handoff) so I'll have to look at my hardware list in the system report and see what it might be considering a pccard and either disable it in bios or at least move the pccard.menu (or rename it) to prevent it from being launched.