You will often encounter function names with an Ex suffix in their names, such as RegCreateKeyEx (which is an extended version of RegCreateKey). When Microsoft updates a function that is incompatible with an old function, the updated function has an Ex suffix added to its name.
3.1.2 Extended API Functions
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