>Thnaks for your help, Larry
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>Settled for:-
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>RUN KILL /F iexplore
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>as iexplore is a "constant"

If the item of interest is -always- IE, you'd be better off using the Shell.Application object's Windows collection to iterate through instances of the browser, and close the one(s) of (dis)interest explicit by invoking the instnace's Quit method. If you have more than one IE instance running, KILL as shown does not guarentee the correct instance dies; using the WIndows collection to examine the InternetExplorer.Application instance properties for each instance makes steering to the right thing to kill much easier.

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>Dennis