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in reply to Re^2: -e on windows giving error
in thread -e on windows giving error

I presumed you neither imported SetErrorMode nor used its full name? 

use Win32API::File qw( SetErrorMode SEM_NOOPENFILEERRORBOX );
SetErrorMode( SetErrorMode(0) | SEM_NOOPENFILEERRORBOX );

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