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PROBLEM QUITTING MICROSOFT EXCEL I have been trying to solve the problem of terminating the excel process when using the COM functionality. I found a few 'supposed fixes' including not using arrays etc but none of them seemed to work. Example: $excel->application->Quit(); $excel->Quit(); None of these variants properly quit the process - ONLY the visible application. Several hours of using your code would leave thousands of excel processes running invisibly in the background and eating all your ram very quickly. As I was developing on a solution designed to work on clients running windows, my solution was to install microsofts 'kill.exe' into the windows directory and then run it using: shell_exec("kill excel.exe"); One problem is because kill.exe is an add on utility, some clients running windows will not have it. The solution is then to use file_exists(filename) to detect for the file and then if not present, let the user download it. Example: $killApp = "C:\WINDOWS\KILL.EXE"; if (file_exists($killApp)) { # continue } else { # show message and link to kill.exe download } ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.com.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+37108 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+37108&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+37108&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php