Reference

RegOpenKeyA(3w)

NAME

RegOpenKeyA (ADVAPI32.@)

SYNOPSIS

LSTATUS RegOpenKeyA
(
HKEY hkey,
LPCSTR name,
PHKEY retkey
)

DESCRIPTION

Open a registry key.

PARAMS

hkey [In] Handle of parent key to open the new key under.

name [In] Name of the key under hkey to open.

retkey [Out] Destination for the resulting Handle.

RETURNS

Success: ERROR_SUCCESS

Failure: A standard Win32 error code. When retkey is valid, *retkey is set to 0.

IMPLEMENTATION

Declared in "winreg.h".

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

Debug channel "reg".

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