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* John Sellers (Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:13:36 -0700)
> When I run Cygwin on my WindowsXP machine

You cannot "run" Cygwin. Cygwin is an environment and in essence a one-
file DLL. So what are you running?

> my firewall informs me of regedit activity, searching, and text
> manipulation.

Your "firewall" is supposed to block incoming or outgoing network 
traffic. If your firewall does something it's not supposed to do then 
uninstall it.

> I have not located the source of this activity.

Well, you should.
 
Thorsten


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