Release/Kill POWERPNT.EXE process

[Guest]

Hi
I am using the Office XP Primary Interop Assemblies (Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint.dll) to create PowerPoint presentations. This works fine, but I have notised that in the Task Manager, the Process tab, the POWERPNT.EXE still runs as a process even if I have quit my powerpoint application object and set it to Nothing in my code.

How do I shut down the powerpoint process without ending the process from the Task Manager? I like to shut down the process programatically

Best Regard
Maria Safverstro
Canopus - a part of Resco Sverige AB

 

[Mike M.]

It works fine if just automating the application. I don't know about
PowerPoint.dll. Here is what I do in VB:
' Instantiate PowerPoint
Set pApp = New PowerPoint.Application

' only close PowerPoint if there are no open Presentations
If (pApp.Presentations.Count <= 0) Then
pApp.Quit
End If

' done with this so clear it
Set pApp = Nothing

Hi!
I am using the Office XP Primary Interop Assemblies

(Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint.dll) to create PowerPoint
presentations. This works fine, but I have notised that in the Task Manager,
the Process tab, the POWERPNT.EXE still runs as a process even if I have
quit my powerpoint application object and set it to Nothing in my code.

How do I shut down the powerpoint process without ending the process from

the Task Manager? I like to shut down the process programatically.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi!
I am using the Office XP Primary Interop Assemblies

(Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint.dll) to create PowerPoint presentations. This
works fine, but I have notised that in the Task Manager, the Process tab, the
POWERPNT.EXE still runs as a process even if I have quit my powerpoint application
object and set it to Nothing in my code.

How do I shut down the powerpoint process without ending the process from the Task

Manager? I like to shut down the process programatically.
Check for updates to Office XP. I think there may be a recent one that addresses
the problem of the EXE staying on the process list even after PPT has been shut
down.

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

[CRITICAL UPDATE - Anyone using Office 2003 should install the critical
update as soon as possible. From PowerPoint, choose "Help -> Check for
Updates".]

Hello,

Do any of your presentations contain ActiveX controls? If so, this is a
known problem that is addressed in Service Pack 3 for Office XP (recently
announced).

For more information about SP-3, go to:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=85AF7BFD-6F69-4289-
8BD1-EB966BCDFB5E&displaylang=en

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=832671

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

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