Vista - Big vista problems need help icon/background/graphics/personalise problems

Ive recently gotta a trojan virus and (think) I have got ride of it, anyways the aftermath is not very good:
my harddrive free space has expanded by 17gb and I dont know whats been deleted.
Also my desktop background is black and when I go to change it from the personise command, the different backgrounds are there but they are not showing its just blank icons, and when I try and click on a new background nothing happens the same black background stays on.
further to this whenever I go onto my pics/i-tunes and other folders I can not see the icons they are there but just blank icons,

can anyone help please

I'd like to bump this topic, as I seem to be facing the very same problem, except for the Virus and hard drive thing.
A couple of days ago my desktop background went black, for no apparent reason. Furthermore, most icons in folders don't seem to show up.
In all honesty, I have no idea what could have caused this, as I haven't installed any new patches or other software recently.

Rebooting obviously doesn't help, and I've looked at the Ease of Access Center to see if the box was checked - but it wasn't.

If necessary, I can provide screenshots of what I mean. Hopefully someone has a clue what caused this.

PS, I used the search bar, but the other topics regarding black desktops didn't really seem to be answered.

Hello

the problems I was experiencing was because I had a virus and I had to wipe my computer in the end, i think it was the google virus I couldnt locate or get ride of the virus so had to start all over.

when you do internet searches or click on internet links do you get redirected to random sites?

Hello,

I believe it's not a virus. I have performed several scans right after my background and icons disappeared, using several programs. None of them found anything at all. I don't get redirected to random websites and every program I use works perfectly fine. Windows itself works fine as well, except for the previously mentioned problem. That's what makes it so confusing; nothing's wrong, except for the background and the icons.

I dont know then buddy I used loads of different av/spyware software and nothing obvious was found someone on a different forum somewhere (forgot were) told me I had a virus when I posted some sort of reports so I just wiped everything and re-booted that sorted it out.
None of my programmes were affected like yours and everything seemed to work ok but i was