removing unnecessary volume shortcuts

KDE / Automount had made /mnt/removable /mnt/removable2 /mnt/removable3 on my Desktop - whenever I shut down without unplugging, remove the USB device and restart and re-plug it, a new shortcut was being created. Tried to remove them by deleting the entries from /etc/fstab and restarting the session. Didn't work. Spent half an hour trying to find relevant .desktop files. Didn't find any. Finally just restarted the whole system, that did it! Now the entries are removed, and when I plug in a USB device, it is seen as Hard Disk and mounted at /mnt/removable