Solved Anyone know why my Desktop looks like this?

I turned off my computer last night and all was normal but when I turned it on this morning it looked like this with a few icons missing as well is this Recycle Bin being stuck in the middle of a bar at the top. I cannot move it to any other position and the "bar" is only seen while my mouse is over it. It's still set to show "My Computer" which is gone and I had a few other shortcuts that are now missing. (the all black is normal)
Hovering the mouse anywhere at the top gets the pop up text as if I was hovering directly over the Recycle Bin.
Edit: I change the "sort by" then the Recycle Bin goes away and the My Computer shows up. Changing it again a different shortcut shows up.
If I deselect auto arrange then I can move it but that entire bar moves with it. Someone else reported the exact same issue in a Microsoft forum but no solution was given.

Fixed it . . .

I changed the icon spacing last night and somehow left out the "-" in front of the number. Aparently did not reboot after doing it.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics

john1955 said:

Fixed it . . .

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Thanks for sharing your solution.

Thanks for sharing that useful lesson.

I would never have thought of that from seeing that diagram so I'll make a note about it for future inspiration.
I've also passed it on to Brink for inclusion in the relevant tutorial.

Well done,
Denis

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If you accidentally set them so far apart that the screen wont contain them they get stacked. Dont wait till the next day to reboot as you might forget what you did