Hi,

Why do you expect that to work?

The path has spaces but is not quoted

There is no wildcard thing for @ARGV

Perl.exe isn't mentioned, and I only mention this because I've no idea how many levels of indirection ftype/assoc like to expand in what they consider an executable... and you'll have to do the checking so you should know what to do if quoting the full path to the .pl doesn't work