If you want to stop console windows from popping up when you call commands with backticks, try adding the following block to your script:

BEGIN
{
    Win32::SetChildShowWindow(0) 
        if defined &Win32::SetChildShowWindow;
}
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This answer was taken from ActiveState's Perl FAQ, and was pointed out by Eradicatore in supressing console with perl2exe and backticks.