On Windows Vista: I want to launch myperlscript.pl from the windows desktop with a double click and have it execute without the dos console window. If I create a myperlscript.bat that does: "c:\perl\bin\wperl.exe myperlscript.pl", the batch file itself seems to cause a dos console window to start up. As far as I know I can't change the file association on "myperlscript.pl" to use wperl.exe instead of perl.exe without causing all .pl files to change to wperl. I was also unable to create a shortcut on the desktop as described in a previous message above. Any hints?