note Anonymous Monk I would improve [id://931171|MyEventLog for Win32::EventLog] with some read-only Win32::TieRegistry stuff and that article referenced by NetWallah to re-turn a Category object, or maybe a [href://http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/Scalar::Util#dualvar] , or probably just a string :) 1015194 1015194 3