RegDeleteKeyA(3w)

RegDeleteKeyA3w

Usage

LSTATUS RegDeleteKeyA
(
HKEY hkey,
LPCSTR name
)

Overview

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".

Releases

4 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7

From libwine-dev 1.4.1-4 in Debian 7 (Wheezy). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.