The 1.32 patch is at least 4-5 months old, so that may be the one you already have. CDV (the publisher) has another patch for quality assurance, but they have had it for awhile and do not appear to be in any great rush to test and release it.
If you have Windows 9x, you can ctrl-alt-del and hit End Task on everything but explorer and systray. In XP there are some processes that can/should not be close. If visual studio sticks an icon on the taskbar by the clock, it may have a right click option to exit.
