Odd. Let's make sure we are talking about the same thing.
Save the program as for example: testLWP.pl
From the command line type: perl testLWP.pl
I am thinking that something is wrong in your Windows Perl environment.
There are some "tricks" about this - related to file associations.
Invoke Perl explicitly in the command line "perl testLWP.pl".

In theory, we should be able to figure out why this code (3 lines) is not running on your machine.
I think something is wrong that is unrelated to LWP.

Forgive me for asking this, but can you run "helloWorld.pl"? 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
print "Hello World!!\n";

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In reply to Re^5: LWP::Simple Empty File by Marshall
in thread LWP::Simple Empty File by idlemind

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