My desktop icons are moving to the left of the screen and reset of average size.

Recently I connected to my laptop Toshiba Satellite Pro to find my desktop icons lined up on the left of the screen on the average size.

I've always had my icons implemented as/where I want them and on small.

After right click on the desktop, I found that the medium-sized icons is checked and the Auto Align box is also checked / I unchecked those boxes and replaced my icons where I wish it and restarted my laptop... to find the icons back to the left and back to middle size!

I just spent about 12 hours to try to resolve this problem.
I use XP and I started having problems as soon as I booted up.
I tried several options.  Right-click on an empty area of the desktop, System Restore, using my free anti-virus, Avast, but nothing worked, whenever I rebooted the icons moved to the left of the screen.
My final solution was to use a piece of free software called "Malwarebytes".
I ran the scan quick option nd about 18 minutes, he began to identify items of malicious programs.
In total, there were 4 pieces.  When "Malwarebytes" asked what I wanted to do, I chose 'delete '.
I had to "reboot" before the changes have taken effect, and I am pleased to report that it does not work with gusto.
I used 'AVAST' when I first add the problem and he found several problems on my hard drive but when I asked to remove them I received a message that the last four items could not be found.
It seems these are ones I finally removed with "Malwarebytes".
I loaded the latest version of AVAST because I find it does not slow down my PC and if I have other problems to suck, I'll use what I can find.
I hope that this help those with similar problems with the icons on the desktop etc.

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