GUI Users isn't the group to ask. Perl-Users or Perl-Admin from Activestate. But, to answer your question, use WMI. Check out Dave Roth's books.
-----Original Message----- From: Cruickshanks, Darin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 1:22 PM To: perl-win32-gui-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [perl-win32-gui-users] Killing process All, Does anyone know of a way (using Perl and not some other 3rd party app), to kill off a running process, given only the name of the process and not the PID. Cheers, Darin -------------------------------------------- Darin Cruickshanks Labs Manager, Computing Service University of Essex [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01206 873585