Another thought I just had while waiting for the pizza delivery man was "Can you daemon-ize it?" ... maybe Win32::Daemon is an approach, pass the service instructions, then kill the service when the app closes?

I have no real idea if this will even work, but my blood sugar is low ...

HTH
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