print "starting notepad, blocking, you must close it to continue$/";

system 'notepad.exe';

print "closed notepad, great$/starting notepad again, no blocking$/";

system qw[ cmd.exe /c start notepad ];

print "look, notepad still open, and I'm exiting$/";
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OK,..Thnaks,...This is what I have done and still not there yet!
#! c:\perl\bin
$|++;
use strict;
use Win32;
use Win32::GuiTest qw(:ALL :SW);
use vars qw /%data/;
$data{apps_list} = shift @ARGV;
$data{host} = Win32::NodeName();
system (cls);
print "\nThis machine is ". $data{host};
print "\n\nPath to apps list => ". $data{apps_list}."\n";
open (LST, "$data{apps_list}") || die "$! : File was not found\n";
chomp  (@{$data{Go_scripts}} = <LST>);
for my $item (@{$data{Go_scripts}})
{
    print "\n$item\n";
    #my @windows = FindWindowLike(0, 'GO');
    #    for my $win (@windows) 
    #    {
    #        print "Found window $win with title '", GetWindowText($wi
+n), "'\n";
    #        my @children = GetChildWindows($win);
    #        for my $child (@children) 
    #        {
    #            my $text = GetWindowText($child);
    #            # next if ($text =~ /^\xff/); # you've found the icon
    #            #next if ($text =~ /^OK|Cancel|Abort|Retry|Ignore|Yes
+|No$/); # you've found a button
    #            print "Found child $child with text '$text'\n";
    #        }
    #    }        
    system ($item); 
    system qw [cmd.exe /c start $item];
    Win32::AbortSystemShutdown($data{host});
    print "\nDone\n";
}
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So how do I exit from system($item) then? Thanks again Blackadder