RegClosekey returning wrong value in Vista business

I am using VC++6.0 editor in Vista.
I was earlier running my application in windows Xp.
As per requirement i ported it to Vista machine and the application is
crashing.
The problem is that in many places the RegCloseKey() is returning value
6(invalid handle) instead of zero.so the application is failing.
Please help me why RegCloseKey() is not working properly in Vista but
in XP.
Same cod in XP,the RegCloseKey() is returning zero.
Please help me.

Thanks
DG


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dhanya

You didn't include a code snippet, and this really isn't a
programming-centric newsgroup.

I would strongly believe that RegCloseKey is returning 'invalid handle'
because your handle is invalid.

Using my psychic debugging abilities, I bet you are using something similar
to this code:
RegOpenKeyEx( HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, L"Software\\Contoso\\SubKey", 0,
KEY_QUERY_VALUE, &hKey );
...
RegCloseKey( hKey );

- where you are a) assuming administrative credentials you never
automatically have (not on XP either, given that there are non-admin users
there too) and b) not properly checking the return value of RegOpenKey or
RegCreateKey or similar.


This is a complete and utter guess given the lack of code snippet. I
apologize if I'm off-base.

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"dhanya" <> wrote in message
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>
> I am using VC++6.0 editor in Vista.
> I was earlier running my application in windows Xp.
> As per requirement i ported it to Vista machine and the application is
> crashing.
> The problem is that in many places the RegCloseKey() is returning value
> 6(invalid handle) instead of zero.so the application is failing.
> Please help me why RegCloseKey() is not working properly in Vista but
> in XP.
> Same cod in XP,the RegCloseKey() is returning zero.
> Please help me.
>
> Thanks
> DG
>
>
> --
> dhanya