in reply to VBScript to Perl Script

Why? If the script works in VB, then leave it in VB. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Furthermore, you're doing a number of Win32-specific actions. This means that you will be bound to the Win32 set of modules. Which, frankly, are reimplementations of the VB API. For Windows-specific programming, I would stick with VB or C#.

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