The DBD-WMI module isn't available in activeperl. What's up with that? Activestate shows DBD-WMI fails the build under windows for perl 5.8 - see: http://ppm.activestate.com/BuildStatus/5.8-D.html The error messages are a bit confusing, but maybe they combined Win32::WQL and DBD::WMI together? Any pointers would be great. Thanks -Craig