Can’t get all excel processes to stop when closing through Powershell
For general guidance on how to release (Excel) COM objects, see the bottom section. $excel.Quit() is enough to eventually terminate the Excel process, but when that happens depends on when the garbage collector happens to run the next time. Your attempt to explicitly release Excel with [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject($excel) is insufficient, because variables $script:workbook and $script:ws1 still … Read more