Killing an excel process

Hi!
That's my first message here, sorry if I left something... I'm having some problems deleting an excel process one I have make some processing previously.
After calling collect and WaitForPendingFinalizers methods and release all the excel objects created (worksheet, workbook and excelapp in that order) the excel process is still there.
I have tried to kill the excel process and I could kill it but then I got a system message telling me that the outlook integration addon has failed so my guess is that the outlook integration addon is messing with some dll related to excel also.
Have you got in this situation and solved it ?
Thanks a lot !!!

I have released the ComObjects (using the ReleaseComObject marshal method) and closed the excel connections before and after releasing all the objects opened, but to no avail, the excel process is still there...
The problem is that each time it opens a new excel instance so it could be a great resources problem if the process is executed a few times.
Right now I could not put the code used but I would try later.
Here's the code...
Finally
 'If Not xlApp Is Nothing Then xlApp.Quit()
 Dim processId As IntPtr
 GetWindowThreadProcessId(New IntPtr(xlApp.Hwnd), processId)
 'AccCommon.Functions.ReleaseComObject(xlSheet)
 'AccCommon.Functions.ReleaseComObject(xlWB)
 'AccCommon.Functions.ReleaseComObject(xlApp)
 GC.Collect()
 GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers()
 GC.Collect()
 GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers()
 RelasseExcelObject(chartRange)
 RelasseExcelObject(xlSheet)
 xlWB.Close(False, Type.Missing, Type.Missing)
 xlApp.Workbooks.Close()
 RelasseExcelObject(xlWB)
 xlApp.Application.Quit()
 xlApp.Quit()
 RelasseExcelObject(xlApp)
 chartRange = Nothing
 xlSheet = Nothing
 xlWB = Nothing
 xlApp = Nothing
 If (processId <> 0) Then
 Dim excelProcess As Process = Process.GetProcessById(processId)
 excelProcess.CloseMainWindow()
 excelProcess.Refresh()
 excelProcess.Kill()
 End If
 End Try

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