In this case I have an object of type shell. It has a number of methods such as .close and .dispose which wait around for the garbage collector.... How do I get rid of the object faster than it would take for the garbage man too? In VB I would use set object = nothing.... Jim James M. Corbett A / Technical Specialist GST / HST Micro Development 875 Heron Rd / Ottawa / Ontario (613) 941-1338