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Subject: Re: regedit fails with a pop-up
From: Denis Excoffier <cygwin@Denis-Excoffier.org>
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> On 2022-05-13 20:47, Rainer Emrich <rainer-lists@emrich-ebersheim.de> =
wrote:
>=20
> 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=E2=80=99ll describe it in a future message.

Regards,

Denis Excoffier.