Got a new job (yea!), got a new laptop (Windows 7 Pro x64 SP1). Want to install Perl to show the team I'm now on some ideas on automation. So far, so good. Go to the ActiveState site and pull the latest Perl, 5.14.2.1402, and install with no problems. Go to fire up PPM and it crashes.

Faulting application name: perl.exe, version: 5.14.2.1402, time stamp:
+ 0x4e8f83bc
Faulting module name: ole32.dll, version: 6.1.7601.17514, time stamp: 
+0x4ce7c92c
Exception code: 0xc0000005

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Rolled back to 5.12.4.1205, no joy. Rolled back to 5.12.3.1204 (which is running fine on my Win 7 Pro x64 SP1 Desktop) with no joy. ole32.dll files are the same version between laptop and desktop. Googled with no joy.

ppm-shell seems to work fine, I updated all standard packages, nothing changed.

It's obviously something on my laptop, but I don't know what because everything else works as expected (it is Windows, after all - sorry, couldn't resist). Any ideas where to go next to troubleshoot this? I've never seen anything like this before.

Many thanks in advance for all help.

In reply to Active State Perl Installation Issue on Windows 7 64bit by jsc

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