regedit fails with a pop-up

Rainer Emrich rainer-lists@emrich-ebersheim.de
Fri May 13 18:47:12 GMT 2022


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.


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