NAME¶

SHDeleteKeyA (SHLWAPI.@)

SYNOPSIS¶

DWORD SHDeleteKeyA
(
HKEY hKey,
LPCSTR lpszSubKey
)

DESCRIPTION¶

Delete a registry key and any sub keys/values present. This function forwards to the unicode version directly, to avoid handling subkeys that are not representable in ASCII.

PARAMS¶

hKey [In] Handle to registry key. lpszSubKey [In] Name of sub key to delete.

RETURNS¶

Success: ERROR_SUCCESS. The key is deleted. Failure: An error code from RegOpenKeyExA(3w), RegQueryInfoKeyA(3w), RegEnumKeyExA() or RegDeleteKeyA(3w).

IMPLEMENTATION¶

Declared in "shlwapi.h". Implemented in "dlls/shlwapi/reg.c". Debug channel "shell".