Unable to read registry subkey values in

Using visual C++ 6.0 wrote a small program
to read IE installation path from registry,
My development environment is on NT. This program worked fine on NT but when i tried on
windows 98 , was able to read registry till

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
software\\microsoft\\windows\\CurrentVersion

and it fails at when reading the subkey
“ProgramFilesDir” or any other subkey in registry.

Is there any OS dependency in Registry API.

I tried both MFC and SDK api’s both failed.

I would appreciate any help in resolving this
problem.

TIA,

Best Reagrds,
ravi