Depends on what you all "boot time" in Windows. Windows 9x still runs the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT in DOS mode before starting Windows. A DOS version of Perl could run scripts in AUTOEXEC.

In Windows NT, there's the startup blue screen. There might be some special hacks (possibly with specially compiled versions of Perl... I've never looked into writing apps that run during that time) to run Perl. Or it might not be possible.

There's also the HKLM\Software\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run registry keys to run at startup, and then there's of course the startup folder. As well as login scripts for a network.

Pick your poison...

In reply to Doing it in Windows (was Re: How do you execute a perl program at boot time?) by rrwo
in thread How do you execute a perl program at boot time? by MethodMan88

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