Your best bet is to install the latest version of ActiveState 5.10.x and use their graphical ppm (Perl Package Manager). Type ppm at the command window or use the desktop menu shortcut.

You don't say WHAT module that you would like to install that you can't find on the ActiveState archives. I just queried the ActiveState default repository and came up with 11,367 entries. That is a lot!! That's a whole lot of stuff!

There are reasons to install packages that aren't in the ActiveState library. And I've done that. BUT this requires more work than just "point and click" -> sometimes just "more work", sometimes "a LOT more work".

Oh, on any Windows box >= NT, the command prompt is NOT DOS! I run a program called DOSBox to emulate DOS on my 2 Ghz Win XP machine and it can barely do what a 166 Mhz DOS box can do. If you want a *real* DOS box, I have a pre-production IBM PC, 6 Mhz.