I know get a new OS :) First I installed strawberry perl but it has no GUItest and I couldn't get guitest to install. Then I deleted strawberry and I installed padre-on-strawberry because it says it already contains GUItest and now I can't get anything but notepad to open the pl files. I have to type perl.exe test.pl every time and I'm just way to lazy for that.
I tried all the regular ways to change file extensions in XP. Perl.exe isn't listed in the window, I hit the "browse" button go though the files to perl.exe and hit open or double click and that window goes away but 'pl files still open with notepad. I tried deleting the .pl in the registry and entering pl as "new" but that didn't work either. Any help greatly appreciated. ms