Trojan that hides desktop icons and Windows bar

Does anyone know if there’s such a Trojan that hides desktop icons and Windows bar? A friend of mine has this problem in her PC.

Most likely this is not a trojan, but a corruption of Windows. But without further information there is not much we can say about it.

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  • If there are more (other) problems with the system

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Okay thanks.

Well it’s not impossible. I have seen malware that disables regedit,taskmanager,desktop right-click,desktop icons and even taskbar.