There are a few readily available modules that might help you with your question. One of them is the Win32::Process. You can read an excellent piece of documentation (including sample code) here.

Remember, Google is also your friend in this. Here are a few news group threads that seem to relate to a similar problem (or at least have dose of extra code for you to glance over ;):

• Perl for WIN32 external system calls
• PERL(NT) for Win32 and SYSTEM Calls in NT 4.0 (worked in NT 3.51)

I hope this helps you, Hopes. ;)

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