Re: Writing to registry bug

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Declare Function RegSetValueEx Lib "Advapi32" Alias "RegSetValueExA"
(ByVal hKey As Long, ByVal lpValueName As String, ByVal RESERVED As
Long, ByVal dwType As Long, ByVal szData As String, ByVal cbData As
Long) As Long
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lResult = RegSetValueEx(keyhand, strValueName, 0&,
REG_DWORD, lData, 4)

Your declaration has "ByVal szData As String" and you are passing a Long
with the value 0 so VB is converting it to "0" and you are writing that to
the registry along with a couple of bytes of random garbage.

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