When I use automation (VB, VBS, etc.) to open a workbook
in Excel 2003, the Quit method does not terminate the
Excel process. Each time the script is executed, another
Excel process is started, using about 10MB memory. I need
to use Task Manager to kill the process, lest I run out
of memory in a few days. Here is a sample script:

Dim XLApp
Dim XLWkb
Set XLApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
Set XLWkb = XLApp.Workbooks.Open("c:\xlbug.xls")
XLWkb.Close
Set XLWkb = Nothing
XLApp.Quit
Set XLApp = Nothing
'EXCEL.EXE should not be running anymore, but it is!

You can open any workbook file. I tested with a small
workbook file (two cells only) or a single-line text
file - same result. This problems does not happen with
Excel 2000.

Thanks,

Peter Schellenbach