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From: Denis Excoffier <cygwin@Denis-Excoffier.org>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: Denis Excoffier <cygwin@Denis-Excoffier.org>,
	Rainer Emrich <rainer-lists@emrich-ebersheim.de>
Subject: Re: regedit fails with a pop-up
Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 21:51:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <12F05681-D114-4267-8A8B-8C781E9D1F5A@Denis-Excoffier.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7e6f3be-0a1b-3547-2c1c-e7fd6f9e369d@emrich-ebersheim.de>



> On 2022-05-13 20:47, Rainer Emrich <rainer-lists@emrich-ebersheim.de> wrote:
> 
> Am 13.05.2022 um 19:42 schrieb Denis Excoffier:
>> It seems that very recently (immediately after i installed 3.3.5),
>> /cygdrive/c/windows/regedit /E 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment'
>> no longer works (i.e. should dump the environment on stdout), and produces a pop-up window with:
>> Cannot export HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment: Error opening the file. There may be a disk or file system error.
> I think this has nothing to do with cygwin.
> Did you try regedit /E 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment' in command window or in Powershell?
> For me this gives the same error message, so cygwinisn't to blame.

Indeed, this has nothing to do with cygwin, sorry for the noise.
I found the root cause, i’ll describe it in a future message.

Regards,

Denis Excoffier.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-13 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-13 17:42 Denis Excoffier
     [not found] ` <579342583.2402190.1652467249328@mail.yahoo.com>
2022-05-13 18:41   ` Kevin Schnitzius
2022-05-13 19:43     ` Brian Inglis
2022-05-13 18:47 ` Rainer Emrich
2022-05-13 19:51   ` Denis Excoffier [this message]
2022-05-29 21:25 ` Andrey Repin

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