Sergey,

This is great, I followed the link and I'm learning a lot, thanks for sharing this.
Do you know the property that holds the user running the process?, I'm looking back and forth and can't find it.
Also, VFP's Intellisense is not showing the "Terminate" method you used in your example or the "name" property I found in another sample in the WMI documentation for the process object, do you have a link where all of those properties and methods are listed?

TIA

Max

>It's Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/wmi_start_page.asp
>
>>this works - but why?
>>What is winmgmts://localhost/root/cimv2
>>I have no evidence that it is on the PC anywhere - I see no help in VFP, Win, nor IE ???
>>
>>
>>>

FUNCTION KillAcrobat()
>>>	loCIMV2		= GetObject("winmgmts://localhost/root/cimv2")
>>>	loProcesses	= loCIMV2.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_Process WHERE Name = 'Acrobat.exe'")
>>>	IF loProcesses.Count > 0
>>>		For Each objProcess in loProcesses
>>>			objProcess.Terminate(0)
>>>		NEXT
>>>	ENDIF
>>>
>>>	RETURN
>>>ENDFUNC
>>>