Windows 10: My Desktop Icons Keep Rearranging On Startup, But Only On the Main User Account

So I have 2 monitors and whole lot of desktop icons for games and other software, but no matter where I put them they keep getting scattered across both monitors in a very random way. There is no structure or pattern for how the icons get rearranged, but they always seems the arrange themselves in the same way every time I restart the PC, or whenever the PC goes to sleep after inactivity. I recently made an alternative account to put on my PC, but that account doesn't seems to have that issue, it is just my main user account that seems to struggle with this issue. So I'm starting to think it's

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Desktop icons rearrange at random

Hi,

In order for us to find out what causes your screen to go blank and rearrange the desktop icons, we would like to gather more information:

• What troubleshooting steps have you tried so far?
• Have you made any recent changes to your computer prior to this issue?
• When did you start experiencing this issue?

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Icons rearrangement

Hi Amin,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

Please try below steps and check if it helps to stop rearranging desktop icon automatically.

• Right click on desktop, click on View.
• Uncheck Auto arrange icons.

For issue related Start menu check if it has set for full screen try to Off it.

• Go to Settings.
• Click on Personalization.
• Click on Start, turn Off Use Start full screen.

Hope this helps. Please reply if you need further assistance.

Thank you.

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Desktop icon rearrangement on sreen rotate/unrotate

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

We would be glad to help you with the issue you are facing today. I understand the difficulty with the problem.

Method: 1

Please try below steps and check if it helps to stop rearranging desktop icon automatically.

• Right click on desktop, click on View.
• Uncheck Auto arrange icons.

Hope this helps, if the issue persists do get back to us we will be glad to help you.

Thank you.