Placement of the icon on the desktop in Windows 7

My desktop Windows 7 has his icons arranged in two columns on the left flower. If I drag an icon of this table, it snaps back. What can I do to allow icons to be away from the left margin?

Right-click on the desktop, select view and uncheck Auto arrange and align on the grid.

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