Hi Monks

I can't seem to be able to delete a Win32 registry key!

Is there something special in "Perl" that I need to do before I can delete the damn thing?

#! c:/perl/bin/perl.exe -slw
use strict;

use Win32::Service;
use Win32::Registry;

use vars qw/%data @source @target/;

if ($HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->Connect($ARGV[0], my $root))
{
   print "\nSuccessfully connect to remote registry on $ARGV[0]\n";
   if ($root->Open("SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Print\\printer
+s", my $Key))
   {
      print "Obtaining printer information....Please wait\n";
      my @keys;
      my $counter = 0;
      $Key->GetKeys( \@keys );  
      print "\nPrinters found on machine : $ARGV[0]\n";
      for my $subkey ( @keys ) 
      {
         next unless ($subkey =~/,,Winxpps01/);
         print "Deleting : $subkey\n";
         $Key->DeleteKey($subkey); # Please F Off and go away.      
      }
      $Key->Close; 
   } 
   $root->Close;  
}
else
{
   print "\nError: $^E \n";
}
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Thanks in advance for your help

UPDATE

I even Tried this

use strict;
use Win32::Registry;
use vars qw/%data @source @target/;
if ($HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->Connect($ARGV[0], my $root))
{
   print "\nSuccessfully connect to remote registry on $ARGV[0]\n";
   if ($root->Open("SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Print\\printer
+s", my $Key))
   {
      print "Obtaining printer information....Please wait\n";
      my @keys;
      my $counter = 0;
      $Key->GetKeys( \@keys );
      for my $subkey ( @keys ) 
      {
         next unless ($subkey =~/,,Winxpps01/);
         print "$subkey\n";
         $Key->Open( $subkey, my $x ) or die $^E;
         my %vals;
         $x->GetValues( \%vals );         
         for my $item (values %vals)
         {       
            print "$item\n";
            $x->DeleteValue( $item); 
         }
         $Key->DeleteKey($subkey);
      }
      $Key->Close;
   }   
}
else
{
   print "\nError: $^E \n";
}
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Still to no avail....can some pleae help?

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