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Hi, suggest restarting and rechecking the two registry entries are correct if you haven't already.
It seems (from the other lengthy thread in this forum) that people who use ESET have encountered the two symptoms (desktop icons auto-arranging unexpectedly and folder view settings in explorer not remaining as set) and that ESET confirmed this (thread in ESET's forum referenced in the other thread).
One person (at least) I noted found the symptoms disappeared when this fix was applied, then recurred. This might suggest ESET (e.g.) has changed them back, or they've been changed by sthg else, or they were not changed when the attempt to apply the fix was made.
Now this pair of symptoms and each individually has occurred thru several generations of Windows, and a few fixes have been proposed that some people have found to work. Make of that what you will, but searching for 'desktop icons rearranging' for example gives a great many results.
It may be that the symptoms have more than one cause. For example, one idea from XP onwards was that folder view setitngs were lost if you had more than the preset number of folders. (bagmru size).