Deletes a sub-key for a specified registry.

bool AIT_RegDeleteKey(
  integer nHKeyHandle,     // Key handle
  string strRegKeyName     // Name of a key to be deleted
);

nHKeyHandle (input)

Specify a handle to an already opened registry key.

strRegKeyName (input)

Specify a sub-key name for a registry to be deleted.

The return value is true if the function was executed normally, and false if not. If the function has returned false, you can use AIT_GetLastError to acquire an extended error code. The following gives the error codes that AIT_GetLastError might return:

Extended error number	Error code
2	ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND
5	ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED
6	ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE
87	ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER
1009	ERROR_BADDB
1010	ERROR_BADKEY
1015	ERROR_REGISTRY_CORRUPT
1016	ERROR_REGISTRY_IO_FAILED
1019	ERROR_NO_LOG_SPACE

When the OS of the computer is Windows, if the specified key has a sub-key, you cannot delete the specified key. Before deleting a key, delete all of its sub-keys.