Michael,There is a leak in the windows version of the default proxy selector implementation. If no proxy is enabled on the system, i.e. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ProxyEnable = 0, then the handle to the registry key is never released.
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