note bulk88 Since you are on Windows, if you have a EXE or DLL, the majority of them have a version number in them if you right click-properties-version tab. [href://http://search.cpan.org/~jdb/Win32-0.45/Win32.pm#Win32::GetFileVersion(FILENAME)] will get you that info API wise. You are using an API from version.dll to get that info. So google version.dll and Perl and maybe you will find more. <br><br> Trying to extract the version number from MSI or the registry, I dont know about. You are venturing into the COM land. 1005115 1005115