Below you can find a standard perlscript to open a win32 application (Excel in this case) and close it again; with some actions in between. My problem:
it seems that 
$excel->ActiveWorkbook->Close(0);
$excel->Quit();

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is not enough to 'really' close the excel.exe program. This excel.exe is only gone from the taskmanager when the perlscript itself is left. This is especially annoying when it is a perl Tk program, eg. a GUI, where after the interaction with excel, the GUI is not closed If someone has a solution to remove/kill the app in a good way, it would be most appreciated. 
$excel = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Excel.Application');
if ($@) {
    PrintError("Excel not Installed.\n");
    return 0;
}
unless (defined $excel) {
    $excel = Win32::OLE->new('Excel.Application', 'Quit' )
    || (sub { die "Cannot start Excel.\n";return 0 });
}
$sheet = $book->Worksheets("Sheet1");
$sheet->Activate();       

# some actions...
 
$book->SaveAs($excelfile);
$excel->ActiveWorkbook->Close(0);
$excel->Quit();

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In reply to Really stop WIN32 OLE application by yike

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