I'm having a growing problem using the webBrowser control object. I'm using the control within an Access app and navigating to Excel files on my hard drive to display them. I've recently noticed mutiple instances of Excel running in the background. Everytime I navigate to a document, wether it's an Excel file or not, I create an instance of the application and I can't get rid of it. The task manager does not work and in fact has crashed my machine. I recall a MS kb article on this that stated MS was aware of this problem but that was eons ago. I need to close the app instances. Does anyone have any suggestions?