ActivePerl. .pl files no longer execute but open in Notepad instead

Question

I have perl scripts which were running in Windows 7 just fine as of this morning. I made the mistake of using NotePad as the default for opening/editng my .pl files. Now,

Answer 1

Sounds like your .pl extention association is now set to Notepad rather than perl.exe. If you are too busy to fix that, just type "perl yourscript.pl" in a command promot window to start the perl interpreter and to send your script to it to run.

See this answer to fix the association:

File Type .pl Association and Using cmd.exe to Run the Script