in reply to Read registry error

what is $^E in the error message?

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Re^2: Read registry error
by anaconda_wly (Scribe) on Oct 29, 2012 at 19:44 UTC
    The error message was"The system could not find the environment option that was entered"
      That is bizzare. Try  C:\> reg query HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\