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Remy Lebeau (TeamB) wrote:
> 
>>has anyone a RegQuery-example? I've got problems
>>executing the following code: The result shows me, that
>>the program cannot find the specified registry key, but
>>it is there, as regedit shows to me. I'm thankful for any help!
> 
> 
> You should not be reading the "Shell Folders" manually.  MS has a separate
> SHGetSpecialFolderLocation() function for exactly that purpose instead.  Use
> the CSIDL_PERSONAL flag to request the value you're trying to get.
> 
> 
>>if(RegQueryValueEx(regh, regkey, NULL, NULL, buffer, buffsize + 1) ==
> 
> ERROR_SUCCESS) {
> 
> Where is buffer and bufsize defined?  They are not in your code snippet at
> all.  What are they defined as exactly?  What is the actual return value of
> RegQueryValueEx() when it fails?  What is the return value of
> GetLastError()?
> 
> Also, you have a resource leak as you are calling RegCloseKey() only if
> RegQueryKeyEx() succeeds.  If it fails, you are not closing the key at all.
> 

Also, the final parameter is supposed to be a pointer to a DWORD that 
contains the size of the buffer. It appears that you are passing the 
size itself. (In any case, adding 1 to the pointer or to the size of the 
buffer seems dubious.)