I previously asked about file associations in Win8 using ActiveState. That one was solved.

Now it's back again. This is Win 7 Pro with Strawberry. A simple test script "test.pl" is one print statement. 

print "This is a test\n";

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assoc .pl
.pl=Perl_program_file

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ftype Perl_program_file
Perl_program_file="\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe" "%1" %*

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Issuing the command 

test

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Causes a window to pop up saying 

Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file.
You may not have the appropriate permissions to access them.

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I made sure all files had read/write permissions, including \strawberry. I tried running this from a DOS Box with and without admin privileges. That made no difference. I've had no problems with Win 7 Home Premium. This is my first time with Pro.

Also, I should note that ... 

\strawberry\perl\bin\perl test.pl

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works just fine.

In reply to Starting Strawberry in Win7 by LloydRice

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