I have had similar problems with Perl scripts in the Startup folder. I think it might have to do with certain environment variables (like PATH) not being properly initialized, because the following worked for me. Caveat emptor: I haven't thoroughly diagnosed this; the fix below fixed it, and I didn't investigate any further, YMMV. 

@ECHO OFF
REM -- this is a .CMD script named 'C:\sperl.cmd' to launch Perl at st
+artup.

set PERL_BIN=C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe

echo == %1 >> C:\startup.log
%PERL_BIN% -w %* 1>>C:\startup.log 2>&1

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This is called like: 

C:\sperl.cmd C:\path\to\script.pl and some args

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A file named C:\startup.log is appended to: I have a logon script that erases this file before the Startup folder is ever executed, so you'll have to address that issue as well.

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In reply to Re: Startup Perl program by radiantmatrix
in thread Startup Perl program by Win

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