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Hi, I too am having or was having this problem every time I started my windows 10 pro x64 pc but only when starting from a shut down state. Reset had no change to the icons on the desktop.
I tried everything I have read in the forums, the reg keys (which mine were correct anyway) unchecking the "allow theme to change desktop icons" box and a bunch of other things I found in various threads but none seemed to work. I did not want to use a 3rd party software program to work around the problem so I didn't even try it. I would rather move my icons back than do that ( I have a lot of icons but I keep them grouped in a few folders so not a big deal to rearrange but still sucks.
One thing I noticed while messing with this problem was my system restore was not working, I kept getting an error when trying to do a restore. I think the error code was 0x80070091 (pretty sure that is correct) Now this is to fix system restore but seems to have fixed my icons rearranging too. it is pretty simple to try. you simply have to rename the folder "WindowsApps" you can rename it anything but I did as recommended "WindowsApps.old" this fixed my system restore and I think it fixed my icon changing problem too. Ohh maybe not quite that easy as it sounds. you will probably have to mess with security so you can rename it, which made me think this may be the problem with the icon thing so I also gave myself full and special permissions on my "user" folder too. My thinking was the "desktop.ini" or some other file was probably not being allowed to save.
So I renamed the WindowsApps folder and I gave myself full control of my "Users" folder. to get access to rename the windowsApps folder (which you may or may not have to do) do this
Option 1: Rename the WindowsApps folder in Safe Mode
1. Boot into Safe Mode.
2. Right click on Start and click on Command Prompt (admin).
3. Type these commands below one by one.
• cd C:\Program Files
• takeown /f WindowsApps /r /d Y
• icacls WindowsApps /grant “%USERDOMAIN%\%USERNAME%”F) /t
• attrib WindowsApps -h
• rename WindowsApps WindowsApps.old
4. Reboot back into Windows.
5. Run System Restore.
Option 2: Rename the WindowsApps folder from the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE)
Boot into WinRE. To do this, click Start > Settings > Update & security > Recovery. Then under Advanced startup, click Restart now.
Click Troubleshoot > Advanced Options > Command Prompt. Enter your administrator password when prompted.
Type these commands, one by one:
cd C:\Program Files
attrib WindowsApps -h
rename WindowsApps WindowsAppsOld
Reboot Windows.
The second thing I did which may have actually fixed the desktop icon problem was to give myself full control of the Users folder I just did this under the folder properties, then the security tab, then advanced and add my user name and change permissions to full and special control. You have to do this to all folders/files inside this Users folder too. I think there is a checkbox you check..
as I say one of these 2 things (or both) seem to have fixed the problem for me, it was happening every time I started my PC from a shutdown and now for 3 days I have not had my icons change on me.
One last note, renaming the windowsapps folder will cause other problems, a few apps that are in that folder will not run, like photo viewer and others but you can get them back by renaming the folder back...
hope this helps