It would be best to use one of the dedicated modules but in the absence of those the following simple utility might do what you need: Screen capture on Windows.

See the full example at the linked node but here is the shorter version.

    #!/usr/bin/perl -w

    use strict;
    use Win32::Clipboard;
    use Win32::GuiTest 'SendKeys';


    # Send "Print Screen" key to Windows.
    SendKeys('{PRTSCR}');


    # Get the image from the clipboard.
    my $screen = Win32::Clipboard::GetBitmap()
                 or die "No image captured: $!\n";


    # Print the image to a file.
    open    BITMAP, "> screen.bmp" or die "Couldn't open bitmap file: 
+$!\n";
    binmode BITMAP;
    print   BITMAP $screen;
    close   BITMAP;

    __END__
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John.

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