Which version of Windows are you using and what code did you write?

I ask this because on Windows 10, the following works perfectly:

a.pl:

use 5.16.2;

system "start perl a.plx";
system "start perl a.plx";
system "start perl a.plx";

my $i = 1;
say $i++ while sleep 1;
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a.plx:

use 5.16.2;

my $i = 1;
say $i++ while sleep 1;
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The reason this works in Windows is because start spawns a new command prompt instance, completely detached from the parent instance. This separate instance can be terminated separately with ctrl-c, so if you're looking for something that is unkillable, you will have to look elsewhere (such as firing the code under a different user account, where the logged in user has no rights to terminate software running under the alternate account)

Windows 7

Im just trying to have it basically spawn a separate process in the background. defiantly dont need a separate command window that it opens in. I even tried 'start /B'. but even that gets killed if the parent is <ctrl><c> out of.

defiantly dont need a separate command window that it opens in.

May be you don't need it but, if you use /min, it is completely unobtrusive and will disappear when the process does.

If you really need to avoid the window, then you'll have to work out how to use Win32::Process and the appropriate combination of these flags:

        CREATE_DEFAULT_ERROR_MODE
        CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE
        CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP
        CREATE_NO_WINDOW
        CREATE_SEPARATE_WOW_VDM
        CREATE_SUSPENDED
        CREATE_UNICODE_ENVIRONMENT
        DEBUG_ONLY_THIS_PROCESS
        DEBUG_PROCESS
        DETACHED_PROCESS
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Or I could show you...but nah.

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