>I have the need of killing a process, fron within Visual foxpro. actually I am calling the TaskKill utility of XP, now I need to run it from Win2K, how can I kill a process in Win2K?

If you know the ProcessID #, You can try:

loCIMV2		= GetObject("winmgmts://localhost/root/cimv2")
loProcesses	= loCimv2.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_Process WHERE ProcessId = 2756")
For Each objProcess in loProcesses
	objProcess.Terminate(0)
Next

Or, if you want to kill all instances of an exe, you can try:

loCIMV2		= GetObject("winmgmts://localhost/root/cimv2")
loProcesses	= loCimv2.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_Process WHERE Name = 'AcroRd32.exe'")
For Each objProcess in loProcesses
	objProcess.Terminate(0)
Next

I think this should work for both XP and 2000, although I do not have 2000 to test, additionally with little modification you can kill remote processes.

hTh