Thanks Paul. I did try that, at least I thought I did but it was late, couldn't keep my eyes open and knew I had to get up early. Now just to doc exactly what I have so it may help someone else.

use strict;
use warnings;
use English;
use diagnostics -verbose;
use File::Path;
use Switch;
use Cwd;
#Load Windows specific moduldes
use if ($^O eq "MSWin32"), "Win32";
use if ($^O eq "MSWin32"), "Win32API::Registry" => qw(:ALL);
use if ($^O eq "MSWin32"), "Win32::Shortcut";
use if ($^O eq "MSWin32"), "Win32::TieRegistry";
if ($OSNAME eq "MSWin32") {
    $main::Registry->Delimiter("/");
}
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Two notes.
I had to quote the modulde names since I'm using strict.
I couldn't get the option 'Delimiter("/")' working on the "us if ... TieRegistry" line so I had to set the delimiter on it's own line

Thanks everyone for your help. Hopefully this summary will help someone else.
-Dave