Registry Checker

This boolean always returns false :S
Anyone have any suggestions as to why?

Code:

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bool keyExists()
{
        HKEY hKey;
        DWORD lRv = RegOpenKeyEx(HKEY_CURRENT_USER,(LPCTSTR)"Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Policies\\Explorer", 0, KEY_READ, &hKey);
        if (lRv == ERROR_SUCCESS)
                return true;
        else
                return false;
        RegCloseKey(hKey);
}

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And I'm checking it's return value like so:

Code:

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if (keyExists())
        printf("Found");
else
        printf("Not Found");

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Reading the documentation, we see this:

Quote:

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If the function fails, the return value is a nonzero error code defined in Winerror.h. You can use the FormatMessage function with the FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM flag to get a generic description of the error.

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Have you tried that?

And where you've put this

Code:

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RegCloseKey(hKey);

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it's utterly pointless as you've returned from the function. I'm surprised you don't get at least a warning for unreachable code on that.