I am using the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer built into Windows XP as a slideshow. However, I have one slight problem that I cannot seem to figure out. After a while the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer no longer responds to the commands. Try the code below and pass in a directory that has a lot of images. It will work for the first 50 images or so and then it simply does not respond to the view requests. Does anyone have any idea why? or how to fix the problem? 
#!perl
use strict;
my $dir=shift || die "No image dir";
my $viewcmd=qq|rundll32.exe C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\Shimgvw.dll,ImageVi
+ew_Fullscreen|;
opendir(DIR,$dir) || die "Error opening $dir\: $!";
my @files=grep(/\w/,readdir(DIR));
close(DIR);

foreach my $file (@files){
    my $absfile="$dir\\$file";
    next if $absfile!~/\.(jpg|gif|bmp)$/is;
    my $syscmd=qq|$viewcmd $absfile|;
    print "$syscmd\n";
    system(1,$syscmd);
    select(undef,undef,undef,3);
    }

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