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".