Click Start Click Run Type Cmd [ENTER] This will give you a persistent console window. Now navigate to where your program is (there are easy and harder places to leave it) examples: cd Foldername cd C: cd C:\\Documents and Settings\Username\Desktop\Folder\script.pl You can use DIR command to see where you are and what you have there. Now run it. Either of these will work script.pl perl script.non.pl.ending