I personally prefer http://www.indigostar.com/'s distribution of Perl for Windows. For one thing, the install doesn't require a reboot and is much easier to automate.

Just be aware that when you are running any of the Apache thingies (like the "Perl Console"), you have opened up an unsecured web server on your machine that has the "default examples" installed which are usually a source of security problems. It took me about 10 minutes to find the configuration files involved and lock out all external access to the web server. I'm disappointed that IndigoStar hadn't already done that for me. But so far that is my only complaint.

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")