NAME¶

RegOpenKeyExA (ADVAPI32.@)

SYNOPSIS¶

LSTATUS RegOpenKeyExA
(
HKEY hkey,
LPCSTR name,
DWORD options,
REGSAM access,
PHKEY retkey
)

DESCRIPTION¶

Open a registry key.

PARAMS¶

hkey [In] Handle of open key. name [In] Name of subkey to open. options [In] Open options (can be set to REG_OPTION_OPEN_LINK). access [In] Security access mask. retkey [Out] Handle to open key.

RETURNS¶

Success: ERROR_SUCCESS Failure: A standard Win32 error code. retkey is set to 0.

NOTES¶

Unlike RegCreateKeyExA(3w), this function will not create the key if it does not exist.

IMPLEMENTATION¶

Declared in "winreg.h". Implemented in "dlls/advapi32/registry.c". Debug channel "reg".