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REGDIR, strange error message

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Here's a similar one with another oddity (that was not in my first example). Notice the leading space when the parameter is shown after the error message.

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ProcessMonitor says TCC calls RegOpenKey (result "NAME NOT FOUND" ... ???). But WinDbg does not break on RegOpenKeyW! Could it be the new VisualStudio pooh-poohing that old function?
 
WinDbg wasn't breaking because it had set the breakpoint at CRYPT32!RegOpenKeyExW. After I specified ADVAPI32!RegOpenKeyExW and tried the experiment in question, I could see that RegOpenKeyExW returns 2, which seems correct.
 
No, the key does not exist. Are you calling GetLastError() after a function that doesn't SetLastError()?

I took a look at that code (which is in a third-party library). They are throwing an exception if RegOpenKeyEx returns an error; the (generic) exception handler then calls GetLastError(). For 21.0.40, I just changed that to pass the error returned from RegOpenKeyEx. (Though to be fair to the original developer, the MS docs never say which of the Windows APIs do not support GetLastError().)
 

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