I have removed the hard drive and connected it to a second computer in order to scan for viruses so far AVG Ultimate has found none, and MalwareBytes is a fair way through scanning without yet detecting any threats. To convert an image, click the Browse button and select the image, then choose icon type and finally click on the Download button. But I am still not seeing many of the files that seemed to have 'disappeared' (which primarily consists of more recent files that I never sent to the Recycle Bin). Strangely now when I look at the desktop I see the files that I restored from the Recycle Bin. Under Themes > Related Settings, select Desktop icon settings. To add icons to your desktop such as This PC, Recycle Bin and more: Select the Start button, and then select Settings > Personalization > Themes. I clicked on these and selected 'Restore', doing so presented a message to the affect of 'The Desktop already has this file, do you want to replace it'' to which I responded with 'Do not copy' (or similar) - in essence cancelling the Restore operation. To view them, right-click the desktop, select View, and then select Show desktop icons. However unfortunately this did not help.Īfter this I checked the Recycle Bin and found a number of files which had originally come from the desktop. I first performed a System Restore in the hope of getting everything back to normal. The desktop icons in question include recent Excel and Word documents that I have not backed up elsewhere!

This morning when I turned my computer on the background wallpaper was missing, and most (but not all) desktop icons were missing. I am facing a strange issue in Windows 7.

Icon pictures for desktop