| Install, the first install will appear to launch, but it will | usually not | do anything until the perl script ends
Works fine here ... there must be something in your water. - are you using the multithread perl? (5.6) - how do you launch the installer? Backtick or some windows function? - how do you watch for the first installer to finish so as not to launch all of them at the same time? (maybe it's this watcher that does not yield to other tasks)? - do you really have to end your script or would it suffice to give the installer the focus? - how do you start your perl script in the first place ... out of a command window, out of an explorer, or with this wrapper thing that prevents the text window from showing? A final word: please hold on! Don't fall back to VB! 't'wood bee sooo embarrassing ...