Get netrw to ignore executability of file

For netrw 140, one of the differences between the Windows gvim and
Cygwin/X11 gvim is that the Cygwin/X11 version will show the
executable files with "highlight netrwExe" which is linked to
"highlight Preproc". This does not happen with the Windows version,
even netrwExe is also linked to PreProc. I assume that it is because
the executability of each file is not conveyed to gvim and/or netrw,
or because it is not *properly* conveyed.

I actually prefer the behaviour without special highlighting of
executable files because in Windows, files seem to be marked
executable in a random manner (at least as viewed using "ls -l" in
Cygwin's bash). So the highlighting is random and is the source of
cognitive noise. Furthermore, even if that was not the case, I rarely
make use of the information about a file's executability. True binary
executables are always collected away in their own directories and are
rarely mixed with other file types, so there is no need to highlight
them and distinguigh them from brethren files. As well, for my
purposes, the notion of executables have blurred e.g. vim files,
matlab files, bash files, perl file, etc.. Particularly in Windows,
it doesn't matter much whether one launches an app by double-clicking
on the binary executable or by double-clicking a file with an
extension that invokes a particular app.

I tried to get rid of netrwExe highlighting by linking it to Normal.
This was OK, but the asterisk that immediately follows the filename to
indicate executability still there, and is definitely not Normal. It
is still loudly pronouncing itself in netrwExe highlighting. Is there
a way to get rid of the distinction of executability all together?

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