T430 Optical drive bug in Windows 8

Hi, I made a huge mistake when I decided to install lenovo settings dependancy program... among other bugs, I noticed that I can see my optical drive twice in My computer
Not only I saw it twice, but the Lenovo shortcut didn't really work.. it was saying its Powered Off even if it wasn't... So I decided to unisntall this lenovo software and now I see this...When I click on it, it says the modul couldn't be found... any idea how to remove the bloody shortcut?
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So I managed to at least making it work properly. by installing the power management driver- dependency package - lenovo settings win8 store app.... now my question is: I would like to keep this functionality of turning my optical drive on and off... but i dont really need all that software around.. which of these 3 can i uninstall and keep this functionality?

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