Thanks a lot. I used to be an ActiveState customer. Recently I switched to Strawberry since it seemed (and later proved) to be more capable of installing CPAN modules. However I feel more and more that the functionality of even CPAN modules is limited when it comes to interfaces to Windows API. (For example in the Win32::GUI module when I speak to the System Tray a bubble pops up which makes a noise - I don't want this noise). Ceterum censeo there is a need to do it myself and make API calls directly through XS code.