I don't know that this means: Rolled back to 5.12.4.1205, no joy. Rolled back to 5.12.3.1204 .

I've found that on previous versions of Windows, this Windows checkpoint stuff just doesn't always work "as advertised".

I would go back and use the Windows Software Mgmt to uninstall all of what you have done - uninstall. Then reboot. This is often necessary!

Windows of any version was just not designed to run continuously. And worst case, the re-boot won't hurt anything. Spend a couple of minutes. The reboot sets environment variables and paths, cleans out already loaded .dll's and other stuff. The reboot will take less time that it took for you to write this post, so do it.

Do a clean install of the 32 bit ActiveState. I would explicitly specify to install the 32 bit version. If you do not need the 64 bit features (larger data access), then don't worry about it. The 32 bit version will run on your 64 bit machine.

This is suspicious: ppm-shell seems to work fine, I updated all standard packages, nothing changed. The standard installation should work just fine "out of the box".

Summary:
- clean out what you've done before as much as possible
- reboot
- install clean with 32 bit version

The "boot it 3 times rule": I learned this in the old days of Windows NT. This is true on Win XP and I would presume on Win 7. What happens it that when Windows boots, it is able to fix one serious error and continue to boot even to the point of actually booting with an additional unfixed error. The 2nd boot can "fix" this additional error.

Ask Microsoft guy why this is. I don't know. I can just report that I have seen this many times. I have never seen a "rollback" work in a complicated situation without a reboot.

The ActiveState 32 bit version will work on a 64 bit machine - end of story.

In reply to Re: Active State Perl Installation Issue on Windows 7 64bit by Marshall
in thread Active State Perl Installation Issue on Windows 7 64bit by jsc

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