Leftover "disk" icons after updates, installs?

Probably this question is dumb and should't be here, but I get stumped sometimes-Many times, after installing software updates, or downloading new software, a "dive" looking icon remains on the desktop, and I can't get rid of it. After following all the instal instructions, this seems to be leftover. If I am successful in trashing it, do I lose the software also? Why doesn't the update or software just go to the applications folder, like some do?

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Hi Steve,
To continue Barbara's excellent reply,
and if ejecting a disk image seems to get rid of the whole application, it means that you didn't actually install it:
You were just running it from the disk image.
Just like you'd have run it from a CD.
"Why doesn't the update or software just go to the applications folder, like some do?"
They automatically go to the applications folder, because they are installed by an Installer.
The ones you have to drag yourself to the applications folder, are the ones that don't need an installer.
(That's how they also can run from the image, without being installed, creating only a preference file in your user's Library).
This looks confusing, but the good side of it is that applications in Mac OS are "self-containing": they don't spread multiple invisible files all over the place like in Windows.
Axl

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