And on that very page they say:

Drop handlers are registered under the file class's HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ProgID\Shellex\DropHandler subkey. Create a subkey of DropHandler named for the handler, and set the subkey's default value to the string form of the handler's CLSID GUID.

(emphasis mine) which confirms what I said ! (But I was too lazy to check MSDN - thanks for ref ++but I ran out of votes!) So though the Perl script itself doesn't have a CLSID, file extension .pl is registered to type perl which can have a shell extension drop handler registered by placing it in Shellex\DropHandler.

My remaining question is whether the .exe drop handler I blithely copied across is safe to use with Perl scripts or whether we need to wait for ActiveState as you suggested.

Cheerio!
Osfameron

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