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RegDeleteKeyA(3w)

NAME

RegDeleteKeyA (ADVAPI32.@)

SYNOPSIS

LSTATUS RegDeleteKeyA
(
HKEY hkey,
LPCSTR name
)

DESCRIPTION

Delete a registry key.

PARAMS

hkey [In] Handle to parent key containing the key to delete.

name [In] Name of the key user hkey to delete.

NOTES

MSDN is wrong when it says that hkey must be opened with the DELETE access right. In reality, it opens a new handle with DELETE access.

RETURNS

Success: ERROR_SUCCESS

Failure: Error code

IMPLEMENTATION

Declared in "winreg.h".

Implemented in "dlls/advapi32/registry.c".

Debug channel "reg".

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