There have been a few mentions of ActiveState perl.
Based on my experiences of it of a few months back, I would recommend that you avoid it ... unless you are looking for something that will substantiate your Windows prejudices.
Cheers, Rob
Comment on Re: New-to-Perl: recommendations for windows setup?
My transition from ActiveState to Strawberry started shortly after writing Installing Template::Toolkit on Windows. I have never had the sort of installation problems with Strawberry that I had with ActiveState. They may have been fixed, but that does not prevent their reappearance.