Re: regedit - delete key patch

[Zimler Attila]

Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
> On February 15, 2004 06:07 am, Zimler Attila wrote:
> > +BOOL DeleteKey(HWND hwnd, HKEY hKeyRoot, LPCTSTR keyPath)
> > +{
> > - BOOL result = FALSE;
> > - LONG lRet;
> > - HKEY hKey;
> > -
> > - lRet = RegOpenKeyEx(hKeyRoot, keyPath, 0, KEY_SET_VALUE, &hKey);
> > - if (lRet != ERROR_SUCCESS) return FALSE;
> > -
> > - if (messagebox(hwnd, MB_YESNO | MB_ICONEXCLAMATION,
> >
> > IDS_DELETE_BOX_TITLE, IDS_DELETE_BOX_TEXT, keyPath) != IDYES) +       goto
> > done;
> > -
> > - lRet = RegDeleteKey(hKeyRoot, keyPath);
> > - if (lRet != ERROR_SUCCESS) {
> > -
> >   error(hwnd, IDS_BAD_KEY, keyPath);
> > -
> >   goto done;
> > - }
> > - result = TRUE;
> > -
> >
> > +done:
> > - RegCloseKey(hKey);
> > - return result;
> >
> > +}
>
> Is RegDeleteKey() working to delete an entire tree? 
> I haven't checked the documentation, but I thought 
> we needed to use shell32.SHRegDeleteKey() instead...

I will check up for differences, but this deletes the entire key with 
subkeys and values from the marked key.