Reference

SHDeleteEmptyKeyA(3w)

NAME

SHDeleteEmptyKeyA (SHLWAPI.@)

SYNOPSIS

DWORD SHDeleteEmptyKeyA
(
HKEY hKey,
LPCSTR lpszSubKey
)

DESCRIPTION

Delete a registry key with no sub keys.

PARAMS

hKey [In] Handle to registry key.

lpszSubKey [In] Name of sub key to delete.

RETURNS

Success: ERROR_SUCCESS. The key is deleted.

Failure: If the key is not empty, returns ERROR_KEY_HAS_CHILDREN. Otherwise returns an error code from RegOpenKeyExA(3w), RegQueryInfoKeyA(3w) or RegDeleteKeyA().

IMPLEMENTATION

Declared in "shlwapi.h".

Implemented in "dlls/shlwapi/reg.c".

Debug channel "shell".

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