On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 06:15:09PM +0000, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> implemented the possibility to delete whole registry trees.
> (which you couldn't do before e.g. in regedit)
> 
> I'm a bit frightened by the small size of patch, however.
> 
> Why wasn't it implemented before if it was that easy ?
> 
> Did I miss something obvious ? (or not so obvious, perhaps)

Hi Andi,

NT's RegDeleteKey doesn't delete the key if it contains subkeys, while
win9x's does.  To perform a recursive delete under NT you're
supposed to call SHDeleteKey or see knowledge base Q142491.

Huw.
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