Getting back to the question "how did you install Perl?" - That I forget - it was so many years ago to be honest. However, I use Perl at my work. And, what ended up happening was, any time I switched a position in my company or received a new computer, I usually copied & pasted files that were in the C:\Perl_New & C:\Perl_Newest folders somewhere on our company network. And, then I simply copied & pasted my files to the new computer - and I really didn't have any issues. I use the C:\Perl_Newest - I don't use the C:\Perl_New

When I do perl -v from the command line, it says the below:

C:\Users\pMalle001>PERL -V
Set up gcc environment - 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 16 subversion 3) configuration
+:

  Platform:
    osname=MSWin32, osvers=5.2, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
    uname=''
    config_args='undef'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
    useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=und
+ef
    use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='C:\Perl_New\site\bin\gcc.exe', ccflags ='-DNDEBUG -DWIN32 -D_C
+ONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DPERL_TEXTMODE_SCRIPTS -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DPERL
+_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_
+T -DHASATTRIBUTE -fno-strict-aliasing -mms-bitfields',
    optimize='-O2',
    cppflags='-DWIN32'
    ccversion='', gccversion='3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)', gccosan
+dvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=8
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='__int64
+', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='C:\Perl_New\site\bin\g++.exe', ldflags ='-L"C:\Perl_New\lib\CO
+RE"'
    libpth=\lib
    libs=-lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -lcomdlg32 -ladvapi32 
+-lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lnetapi32 -luuid -lws2_32 -lmpr -lwinmm
+ -lversion -lodbc32 -lodbccp32 -lcomctl32 -lmsvcrt
    perllibs=-lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -lcomdlg32 -ladvap
+i32 -lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lnetapi32 -luuid -lws2_32 -lmpr -lw
+inmm -lversion -lodbc32 -lodbccp32 -lcomctl32 -lmsvcrt
    libc=msvcrt.lib, so=dll, useshrplib=true, libperl=perl516.lib
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-mdll -L"C:\Perl_New\lib\CORE"'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
  Compile-time options: HAS_TIMES HAVE_INTERP_INTERN MULTIPLICITY
                        PERLIO_LAYERS PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
                        PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
                        PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV PL_OP_SLAB
+_ALLOC
                        USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_LOCALE
                        USE_LOCALE_COLLATE USE_LOCALE_CTYPE
                        USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF
                        USE_SITECUSTOMIZE
  Locally applied patches:
        ActivePerl Build 1603 [296746]
  Built under MSWin32
  Compiled at Mar 13 2013 11:29:21
  @INC:
    C:/Perl_Newest/site/lib
    C:/Perl_Newest/lib
    .
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