in reply to using TaskScheduler to reboot Win32 machine

Try double quoting the whole thing and using single quote the part after the -e 

my $APP_NAME = q#"c:\\perl\\bin\\perl.exe -MWin32 -e Win32::InitiateSy
+stemShutdown('','Rebooting',5,1,1);"#

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