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Subject:	Re: Why is regedit referenced?
Date:	Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:15:44 +0100
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John Sellers wrote:

> When I run Cygwin on my WindowsXP machine,

What do you mean by Cygwin? A bash prompt?

> my firewall informs me of 
> regedit activity, searching, and text manipulation.  I have not located 
> the source of this activity.

Firewalls generally protect against network activity rather than
registry activity, so it's unclear exactly what you're talking about.
Remote registry is a service in Windows that can permit authenticated
users to access your machine's registry, but I suspect this is not what
your utility is talking about.

Process explorer[1] can tell you what application accessed the registry,
what keys it modified, and the call stack at the time of the
modification.

[1] http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

-- Barry

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