WINXP-SP3 - The specified program requires a newer version of Windows.

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It seems like I'm the only one on the plant (Earth) who is having this problem...

I wrote a very simple method which dynamically loads and executes RegCreateKeyExA and I get the following error from "GetProcAddress(Avapi32,RegCreateKeyExA)"

Error 1150. The specified program requires a newer version of Windows.

The same code works fine on Windows 7, so I went back to WINXP and opened advapi32.dll with notepad, and sure enough, RegCreateKeyExA was there.... what am I missing here :confused:

Here is the method:

UINT
regDyFunc::DyRegCreateKeyEx(HKEY hMainKey,
			   LPCTSTR lpSubKey,
			   PHKEY phkResult,
                           LPDWORD lpdwDisposition )
{
 // The type of the wanted function
 typedef UINT (CALLBACK* REGFUNCCreateKeyEx)( 	//LONG WINAPI RegCreateKeyEx(
  HKEY,	  //  __in        HKEY hKey,
  LPCTSTR,//  __in        LPCTSTR lpSubKey,
  DWORD,  //  __reserved  DWORD Reserved,
  LPTSTR, //  __in_opt    LPTSTR lpClass,
  DWORD,  //  __in        DWORD dwOptions,
  REGSAM, //  __in        REGSAM samDesired,
  LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES /*__in_opt LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpSecurityAttributes,*/,
  PHKEY,  //  __out       PHKEY phkResult,
  LPDWORD //  __out_opt   LPDWORD lpdwDisposition
 );

 REGFUNCCreateKeyEx regFuncCreateKeyEx; // Stores the wanted function
	
 long lResult = ERROR_SUCCESS; // Used to check for failure and return value

 // Verify parameters
 if (lpSubKey == NULL)
	lResult = ERROR_INVALID_ADDRESS;

 // Dynamically load the registry function
 if (lResult == ERROR_SUCCESS){
	regFuncCreateKeyEx =
              (REGFUNCCreateKeyEx)GetProcAddress(
                     hAvapi32,
                     (LPCSTR)"RegCreateKeyExA" );
        
	regDyFunc::csLastCall = "GetProcAddress(Avapi32,RegCreateKeyExA)";
	lResult = GetLastError();
 }
 
 // Execute the function
 if (lResult == ERROR_SUCCESS)
 {
	regDyFunc::csLastCall = "RegCreateKeyExA";
	lResult  = regFuncCreateKeyEx(
                                      hMainKey,
                                      lpSubKey,
                                      0,
                                      NULL,
                                      REG_OPTION_NON_VOLATILE,
                                      KEY_ALL_ACCESS,NULL,
                                      phkResult,
                                      lpdwDisposition);

 }
	
 return lResult;
}

And the function to load the library:

C#

bool
regDyFunc::openModules(void)
{
    bool bRet = true;
    regDyFunc::hAvapi32 = LoadLibrary("Advapi32");
    if (regDyFunc::hAvapi32 == NULL){
        _tprintf(_T("Unable to load Advapi32\n"));
        bRet = false;
    }
    if (bRet){
        // Always try to load all modules
        regDyFunc::hKtmW32 = LoadLibrary("KtmW32");
        //Give an error only if its Vista or later
        if ((regDyFunc::hKtmW32 == NULL) && (regDyFunc::Is_Vista_or_Later())) {
            _tprintf(_T("Unable to load KtmW32\n"));
            bRet = false;
        }
    }
    return bRet;
}

Thanks in advance

Posted 19-Jan-11 4:48am

Ribhi Kamal

Updated 19-Jan-11 4:51am

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Henry Minute 19-Jan-11 10:52am

Good question.
Regrettably I have no solution but a good question, nonetheless.

Ribhi Kamal 19-Jan-11 10:54am

I take pride in asking good questions

fjdiewornncalwe 19-Jan-11 11:06am

A great question. I'm going to have to look into this because I'm very curious about it. I don't have an answer now, but if I find something out I'll let you know.

HimanshuJoshi 19-Jan-11 11:08am

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724844(v=vs.85).aspx tells me that minimum supported client is Windows 2000 Professional, so this should work on XP. I suggest better ask in MSDN support forum

Nish Nishant 19-Jan-11 11:09am

How exactly do you get this error? When GetProcAddress is called, Windows pops up this messagebox with that text?

Ribhi Kamal 19-Jan-11 11:18am

From getLastError and then pass it through FormatMessage. The decimal error is 1150

Nish Nishant 19-Jan-11 11:21am

Out of curiosity do you get the same error if you try RegCreateKeyExW? Just wondering if they did something in SP3 to prevent apps from calling RegCreateKeyExA.

Ribhi Kamal 19-Jan-11 11:24am

Good idea, let me try it.

Ribhi Kamal 19-Jan-11 12:12pm

Nope... same problem Error 1150

Nish Nishant 19-Jan-11 12:34pm

Wow, that is odd. Can you get it to work with any function in that DLL?

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Ribhi Kamal · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-19T06:28:00

Well, the fix was to use the Best Practices, which means:
1) Only call GetLastError for functions that actually SET it.
2) Only call GetLastError when the function RETURNS an error status.
3) Only call GetLastError immediately AFTER calling a function that returns an error status.

In my case I wasn't following #2 so the following fixed the problem:

C#

// Dynamically load the registry function
if (lResult == ERROR_SUCCESS){
   regFuncCreateKeyEx =
             (REGFUNCCreateKeyEx)GetProcAddress(
                    hAvapi32,
                    (LPCSTR)"RegCreateKeyExA" );
   regDyFunc::csLastCall = "GetProcAddress(Avapi32,RegCreateKeyExA)";
   if (!regFuncCreateKeyEx)
       lResult = GetLastError();
}

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