tachyon,

thanks to @dawn in her node Re: Re: Win32::OLE (Variants by reference) we can now get the PID when we create the process. I had tried this vefore but she jogged my memory... we need to pass a Variant by Reference!

my $Startup_Class = $wmihandle->Get("Win32_ProcessStartup");
my $Startup_Config = $Startup_Class->SpawnInstance_ ;

my ($error, $pid, $startup_folder);

$startup_folder="C:\\TEMP\\";
$pid= Variant(VT_I4|VT_BYREF, 0);
if (0 == $wmiprocesses->Create($command_path,$startup_folder,$Startup_
+Config,$pid) ) {
   if ($pid) { print "pid=$pid\n"; }
 #blah blah blah
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I've tested this and it works a treat! Thanks @dawn for pointing out obvious thing we missed in the WMI docs.

- Mark