Thread: Registry Checker

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

Code:

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);
}

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

Code:

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

Reading the documentation, we see this:

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.

Have you tried that?

And where you've put this

Code:

RegCloseKey(hKey);

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.