Just FYI, rather than reinventing the wheel, the NSIS installer (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is pretty good & easy to use for when needing to write an installer on windows... You can do regedits, check for existing installs, etc... (Not perl, but a good way to distribute perl in some cases... :) ) Zak

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Zak
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