Unable to move icons to 2nd monitor

Hello Guys and Gals.
I hope you are all doing alright for this monday morning.
I have this funny problem that showed up on the wrong day of the week. user have windows XP pro with two monitor setup. He got some icons that he wants to move from 1st monitor to 2nd one but, unable to do that.
Have any of you received such a problem?
thanks in advance good friends.

Right click on desktop, view, Uncheck Align Icons to Grid. And Uncheck Auto arrange Icons.
Check if this works.
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