The Case of the Missing Folder
The first thing that comes to mind is where onedrive has played a trick on you and synchronised your desktop without you noticing. That can f-up things a bit, happened to me before. Look in your user-folder for a second "Dekstop"-Folder. Also if it hasn't, it should have. "No Backup, No Mercy" as they say, and I recently had to learn that the hard way.
Now assuming you're not running an SSD with TRIM, you could try a data recovery software. Just don't save it on your C:-Drive, grab a USB-Stick and you're good to go. In any way, if you have enough storage available, make a backup of your partition. That always helps, as you can mount it instead of writing to your drive and then see what's possible.
Full search on windows is practically useless in my experience, so I wouldn't rely on that, but it might also be possible, that I've not made clear, what I'm after.
I'd consider the restoration to a previous point the last resort. Also, windows claims that it doesn't affect personal data.
Good luck and all the best!
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