Quote Originally Posted by bioHzrdmX View Post
To check whether you have MSDN installed or not, simply hit F1 from inside the VS IDE, the help system will popup, just go to the Index tab and write RegOpenKeyEx, if the entry is found within the index, then you have access to the MSDN (it may be online or local). That's all you need to get started with Win32 programming.

Now let me explain something about API: If you want to make cool apps that make use of windows-specific technologies (registry, directx, etc) you must learn Win32 API. That is just a bunch of functions that the OS provides to let developers interact with it.

So, when it comes to registry, you must use the OS routines to interact with him.

Please tell me if you want some example code, but first, please tell me how skilled you are in C++, Win32 API and if you are using MFC/ATL or just plain C++.
Well i found this MSDN and I got lot of informations about RegOpenKeyEx, thanks for that.
Well it would be very nice if you could post some example code cause I learn it best from examples.
Im not skilled in C++, I started learning about a week ago and I've been throughout a lot of tutorials, I mean a LOT. I decided to skip a bit to the registry cause I got and idea to work something with it but all basic stuff doesen't have much in common.
And I'm not skilled in Win32 API, I don't know anything about it.

Also can you pelase tell me which header files should i load to get all this working?