NtReplaceKey

2OO1, 21 February

NtReplaceKey

NTSYSAPI 
NTSTATUS
NTAPI


NtReplaceKey(



  IN POBJECT_ATTRIBUTES   NewHiveFileName,
  IN HANDLE               KeyHandle,
  IN POBJECT_ATTRIBUTES   BackupHiveFileName );

Function NtReplaceKey save specified hive key to file, and starts use this file instread of original hive file. Original hive file contents is replaced with contents of third hive file, specified below.

NewHiveFileName Pointer to OBJECT_ATTRIBUTES structure containing name of third file (file with new contents).

KeyHandle HANDLE to Key Object. Backuped and replaced are all keys from hive whith contains key specified by KeyHandle parameter.

BackupHiveFileName Pointer to OBJECT_ATTRIBUTES structure containing name of first file (new hive file).

Example:

NewHiveFile -> OrginalHiveFile -> BackupHiveFile

Before call to NtReplaceKey system uses OriginalHiveFile.
After call, system use BackupHiveFile.
Documented by:: Tomasz Nowak

Requirements:

Library: ntdll.lib

Undocumented functions of NTDLL