Lost control of desktop, and the hard drive is creating aliases on it's own

I am unable to save to my desktop, or move the one remaining (hard drive) icon around on my desktop. I have double checked the organization settings, and there are set to none. I have run the user permissions repair via disc utilities, and cleared the PRAM with no change. In addition to my desktop issue, around 20 aliases of my hard drive are being created on their own. any ideas??

First, Safe Boot , (holding Shift key down at bootup), use Disk Utility from there to Repair Permissions, test if things work OK in Safe Mode.
Then move these files to the Desktop for now...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist
Reboot & test.
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.

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