Icons are all jumbled up

I've just install Win 7 after getting a bug and failing to find out where it was located. Any way everything is running OK accept for the desktop icons.

I've got 9 and I set them up for convenience more than anything else, but every time I start the computer their still in a line at the left of the screen and all set at medium, but all are jumbled up even though I've set them up using the "auto arrange" and "align icons to grid"

Yet on my Asus laptop (running windows 10) they are the same each time I log in.

Can anyone shed some light on this strange problem.

Thanks a lot.

Turn off Auto Arrange. If that is on, Windows will take its liberty with your icons.

Even with Auto Arrange off, Windows will still do its own auto arranging to an extent, just not as much.

Have you ever showed a stack of pictures to a friend, and your friend rearranged them? Windows is that friend, who thinks he knows better than you how the icons should be arranged.

I have three monitors at my job. My icons are on monitors 1 and 2. The icons on monitor 2 often rearrange themselves, perhaps two or three times a week.

On the other hand, the icons never rearrange themselves on my Linux Mint computer (at home).

If this really bothers you, then you might consider switching to Linux Mint.

If you need Windows for some things, you can install VMWare Workstation Player in Mint, and then install Windows in a virtual machine. In that way, you will have Windows if you ever need it.