You could start a perl program (or not) which sleeps (or schedules) the starting of said service (net start "service name"). How you chose is up to you, but I personally wouldn't involve perl (perl at startup only slows startup).

MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"

I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).

** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.