The following page has a WMI-based solution.

http://cwashington.netreach.net/script_repository/view_scripts.asp?Index=374
&ScriptType=vbscript

HTH,

-Roy

-----Original Message-----
From: Gopalakrishnan [mailto:ntg@s...]
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 11:11 PM
To: professional vb
Subject: [pro_vb] Killing a process



hi,

   How can we find whether a process is running or not (for example, 
winword.exe) and then kill it?

Thanks,

N.T.GOPALAKRISHNAN