Windows 10 desktop 'stop' icon and cannot move icons

Hello all, I'm glad there is a community here that deals with Windows 10 and may be able to offer insight into my multiple issues that I am having, of which the first was this can't move icons issue.

I do apologize for the multiple issues below but I just wanted to give ample info on what I am experiencing.

Ok to start, I upgraded from Win 7 Pro to Win 10. All seemed fine.

Installed the trial version of Stardock Start 10, again all things seemed fine and worked properly.

Then about two weeks ago, I noticed I could not move any of my desktop icons to reposition them on the desktop, I would get a grayed out 'stop' icon when I left clicked on the icon to move it.

Align icons to grid is ticked but not the auto arrange. I tried having both unchecked and still had the 'can't move icons issue'.

I have Tweaking.com installed on my machine for fixing a problem I had in Win 7 and decided to use it with Win 10.

Tweaking recommends you restart in SafeMode, which I do, (icons could be moved in SafeMode by the way) and then it does its thing and when finished I then restart the PC back into normal mode from safe mode (side note, it has gotten stuck in safe mode where you cannot restart in normal mode. Even after going into MSCONFIG and clicking Normal mode it would still restart in Safe mode. Don't know what that is about and after running tweaking again it would finally restart normally).

The problem would seem to be fixed, up until I shut down the system, then when it reboots, I again can't move any icons, and I get the gray 'stop' circle.

I have tried multiple malware/anti virus scans and have not been able to find anything (at least while the PC is running, maybe I need to try using a boot CD and scan then).

Any ideas on what may be causing this?

Side note, I have noticed that when using Stardock Start 10 to emulate the Windows 7 interface, when you search in programs and files, when you go to select any Windows program (ie create a restore point) it gives you an error message (I'm at work so I don't remember it exactly) like you don't have rights to run the program or a different message of it cannot find the path to the program.

When I first installed Stardock that did not happen and I could open up anything with out issue.

I will try and post screen shots of the 'stop' icon and the error messages when I get home.

Again, any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Hey Night Hawk, thanks for the reply.... It is much appreciated.

I would be lying if the news has not made me utter a very sarcastic 'Great'!

First, how would I go about trying to repair the upgrade. I have a bunch of programs that I would like to not have to have the headache of reinstalling.

Second if I have to go the clean install route, how exactly does one do that since I upgraded from my 7 installation CD?

And since a clean install will remove all of the entries that tell windows that there is data on my E: Drive (the OS is on my Samsung Evo SSD) where most of these programs and data were stored, what do I have to do to make sure that Windows will find all of those files correctly?

Gotcha, ok first order of business is to create that USB recovery stick, then I will try to repair this installation.....
If that doesn't work then I will have to look into backing up all my stuff and doing a clean install.
Or do you think I should revert back to Win7 and try to reinstall?

Wow, ok, now I'm at the point of being in a situation where I do not know the best course of action. I have created the recovery drive, so that's done.

Now I want to try to repair Win 10, but I am not 100% sure which method to use.

I'm currently downloading the ISO file for Windows 10 and I will burn it to a DVD.

At that point I guess I will have to do some reading and youtubing to see exactly how to go about doing the repair when using the ISO file. Unless you have some additional pointers....?

Hey Rich, I haven't removed Start 10 to test...

I may try that tomorrow and see what happens.