in reply to CPU usage on winxp
To gather Information on Win32-plattform Microsofts Scripting Guys released Scriptomatic 2.0: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/tools/scripto2.mspx
It generates code in bunch of scripting languages including Perl and is easy to use (so I thought it was worth mentioning here).
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