Why does my icon keep going to the middle of the page???

i only have one icon on my desktop and thats mac HD...it seems that whenever i use spaces this icon moves to the top middle of my desktop..i would like it to stay put on the top right??? wat can i do?

I have mine set to Snap to Grid and my Macintosh HD icon stays in the upper right corner, and I’m also using Spaces.
Maybe if you try adjusting the Grid Spacing it would help.
Or you could try moving the finder.plist file to the Desktop from your Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences folder and restarting. If that doesn’t fix it you can move the finder.plist file back to the Preferences folder to replace the new one it created.

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