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setup: exclude some internal UCRT files

When attempting to build the Inno installer locally, I was getting
several file not found errors when py2exe was crawling DLL
dependencies. The missing DLLs appear to be "internal" DLLs
used by the Universal C Runtime (UCRT). In many cases, the
missing DLLs don't appear to exist on my system at all!
Some of the DLLs have version numbers that appear to be N+1
of what the existing version number is. Maybe the "public" UCRT
DLLs are probing for version N+1 at load time and py2exe is
picking these up? Who knows.

This commit adds the non-public UCRT DLLs as found by
py2exe on my system to the excluded DLLs set. After this
change, I'm able to produce an Inno installer with an
appropriate set of DLLs.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D6065

Mercurial has the ability to add new features through the use of
extensions. Extensions may add new commands, add options to
existing commands, change the default behavior of commands, or
implement hooks.

To enable the "foo" extension, either shipped with Mercurial or in the
Python search path, create an entry for it in your configuration file,
like this::

  [extensions]
  foo =

You may also specify the full path to an extension::

  [extensions]
  myfeature = ~/.hgext/myfeature.py

See :hg:`help config` for more information on configuration files.

Extensions are not loaded by default for a variety of reasons:
they can increase startup overhead; they may be meant for advanced
usage only; they may provide potentially dangerous abilities (such
as letting you destroy or modify history); they might not be ready
for prime time; or they may alter some usual behaviors of stock
Mercurial. It is thus up to the user to activate extensions as
needed.

To explicitly disable an extension enabled in a configuration file of
broader scope, prepend its path with !::

  [extensions]
  # disabling extension bar residing in /path/to/extension/bar.py
  bar = !/path/to/extension/bar.py
  # ditto, but no path was supplied for extension baz
  baz = !