From: dave.burt@... Date: 2005-10-19T11:16:57+09:00 Subject: Re: Killing Threads & Processes on Windows You can write the WMI script in Ruby: require 'win32ole' strComputer = "." objWMIService = WIN32OLE.connect \ ("winmgmts:\\#{strComputer}\root\cimv2") colProcessList = objWMIService.ExecQuery \ ("Select * from Win32_Process Where ProcessID = 3672") colProcessList.each do |objProcess| objProcess.Terminate() end Cheers, Dave