VERY RED FACED ...

Seems I have (at least) TWO versions of PERL on computer -maybe three! And when I go to CMD and enter "cpan", it loads the module relating to the Perl5 install that I did at some time, which resides in my user profile as stated above. What I SHOULD have done is gone to start menu, Strawberry Perl folder, and used the cpan module within that folder ! (Sorry, everyone!)

But ... I've also found I have "C:/usr/perl/bin" - the same as the shebang ... which I thought was the one running ... but maybe not. I thought I would rename it, the theory being if 'redundant' and really using Strwaberry, the name change would go un-noticed. But ... (lots of 'buts') it reports that it is in use by another program, and cannot be changed. Which MUST mean it's being lauched at startup! Somehow

Been to the startup folder in Users, but that only shows a few programs that are started up by choice. Tried the C:startup, and that has a lot of files, including Apache Monitor, (which doesn't start as no icon shown; properties says it has come from another computer, and has a block on it), makefile and similar. But nowehere can I see any entries that are loading "C:/usr/perl/bin"

So,whilst not related to original question, how can I 'stop' usr/perl/bin so I can delete it?

Of interest, here are my full paths: 

C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath;
C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;
C:\usr\site\bin;
C:\usr\bin;
C:\Perl64\site\bin;
C:\Perl64\bin;
C:\Windows\system32;
C:\Windows;
C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;
C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;
C:\Program Files (x86)\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static;
C:\Users\Chris Brown\AppData\Local\Smartbar\Application\;
C:\Users\Chris Brown\AppData\Local\Smartbar\Application\;
C:\Strawberry\c\bin;
C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin;
C:\Strawberry\perl\bin;
C:\PHP;
C:\Program Files (x86)\QuickTime\QTSystem\;
C:\usr\c\bin;
C:\usr\perl\site\bin;
C:\usr\perl\bin;
C:\Users\CHRISB~1\perl5\bin

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(Looking at that, maybe PERL64 needs to go as well... and they're not even shown in programs/control panel to delete that way!) Oh, and one final point. Despite having the "notify me when someone replies to my post", I never get any notifications to the email address - which is correct

In reply to Re^2: Cannot access CPAN Installs by cristofayre
in thread Cannot access CPAN Installs by cristofayre

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