SHRegCreateUSKey


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SHRegCreateUSKey
LONG SHRegCreateUSKey(
    LPCTSTR   pszPath,
    REGSAM    samDesired,
    HUSKEY    hRelativeUSKey,
    PHUSKEY   phNewUSKey,
    DWORD     dwFlags
    );
Creates or opens a user-specific registry key.
Returns ERROR_SUCCESS if successful, or a nonzero error code defined in Winerror.h otherwise. You can use the FormatMessage function with the FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM flag to get a generic description of the error.

pszPath
Address of a character buffer that contains the registry path of the key to be created or opened.
samDesired
Desired security access. For more information on security access, see REGSAM.
hRelativeUSKey
Data that indicates which type of HUSKEY to create.
phNewUSKey
Address of an HUSKEY that receive the handle to the new key.
dwFlags
Base key under which the key should be opened. This can be one or more of the following values:

SHREGSET_HKCU Create/open the key under HKEY_CURRENT_USER.

SHREGSET_HKLM Create/open the key under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.

SHREGSET_DEFAULT Create/open the key under both HKEY_CURRENT_USER and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.

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SHREGSET_HKCU	Create/open the key under HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
SHREGSET_HKLM	Create/open the key under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
SHREGSET_DEFAULT	Create/open the key under both HKEY_CURRENT_USER and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.