Thanks for the advice so far, but it doesn't look that simple. I'm pretty sure m
computer is clean, and very clean at that. Also, I don't think it's a matter o
Active Desktop settings (it is not using Active Desktop anyway)
* only systray and explorer runs on task manage
* I don't have any background programs like msn, aim et
* I don't have any virus scanning running in the background
I'm 90% sure it has nothing to do with virus because I don't run Outlook Express no
Internet Explorer. I've cleaned up all the temp files and there shouldn't be anythin
stray lying around (I believe). Also, my home computers have never been infecte
by a virus to my knowledge, and I don't run virus scan software either. So yeah
please just assume that it has nothing to do with viruses

I've just spend the last 2 hours hunting, and I've made some discoveries

I ran my excel program on another seldomly used computer with a fresh install of win98
and all the icons disappeared again. I decided to find out WHEN the icons disappear, s
I unmaximised the Excel windows and ran my program again (I've always been runnin
Excel maximised). This time the desktop windows didn't disappear!!!

I tried on my colleague's computer, he has more things set up and a few things runnin
in the background, including a virus checker (although again, he is very capable and
don't believe his computer is ever infected with any virus). I ran Excel unmaximised an
the icons did NOT disappear. My colleague's computer has a very different setup to mine

The first computer has a similar setup to mine, so I've checked for any differences in th
set up and tried to reproduce the conditions that it had. It didn't work, my compute
still exhibit the problem. And I found out that the icons disappear after the Range.PrintOu
call, but before the Excel's print dialog says "... Page 1 of 1"

It looks like a windows incompatibility or Driver problem of some kind, although probabl
not the printer driver (both computers use the same driver - exact version). I'll work o
it a bit more later, it looks like nobody has encountered this problem before

Kempto