kill excel instance

[PratikshaTiwari]

I am trying to Kill excel instance by its Process Name with Kill Process Action but seems i am failing to do so . Even after killing the instance the file says it is locked by user ? 

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Pratiksha Tiwari
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[EVIPUTI · Accepted solution]

The best way is to use MS Excel VBO and use the Exit and Close Instances actions. One can also use close all instances. 

For kill instance simply try "EXCEL" !

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Vipul Tiwari
Senior Process Simplification and Optimization Designer(Solutions Architect)
Fidelity International
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[sumire]

Hi,

The "Kill Process" included in the "Utility - Environment" VBO is not able to completely kill the process.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.diagnostics.process.kill?view=netframework-4.8

So I created an object to completely kill using code stage.
Input: ProcessName(text)
Output: nothing

Dim p As New System.Diagnostics.Process()

p.StartInfo.FileName = System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("ComSpec")

p.StartInfo.Arguments = "/c taskkill /F /T /FI ""username eq %USERNAME%"" /IM " & ProcessName

p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false
p.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true

p.Start()
p.WaitForExit()
p.Close()​

You can kill Excel processes completely by giving "EXCEL.EXE" as the input argument "ProcessName".

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Mitsuko
Asia/Tokyo
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[EVIPUTI]

@sumire This is useful , thanks for sharing.​

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Vipul Tiwari
Senior Process Simplification and Optimization Designer(Solutions Architect)
Fidelity International
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[VedSengupta]

Hello Pratiksha,
Why not use close all instance action of MS Excel VBO?

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Best Regards,
Ved Sengupta
RPA Developer
Deloitte India (Offices of the US)
Bangalore | INDIA
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