getString

        fn getString(
            key: Key,
            gpa: Allocator,
            entry: ValueEntry,
            comptime result_encoding: enum { wtf16, wtf8 },
        ) error{ OutOfMemory, ValueNameNotFound, NotAString, StringNotFound }!(switch (result_encoding) {
            .wtf8 => []u8,
            .wtf16 => []u16,
        }) {
            const num_data_bytes = windows.MAX_PATH * 2;
            const stack_buf_len = @sizeOf(windows.KEY.VALUE.PARTIAL_INFORMATION) + num_data_bytes;
            var stack_info_buf: [stack_buf_len]u8 align(@alignOf(windows.KEY.VALUE.PARTIAL_INFORMATION)) = undefined;
            var result_len: windows.ULONG = undefined;
            const rc = windows.ntdll.NtQueryValueKey(
                key.handle,
                switch (entry) {
                    .name => |name| @constCast(&windows.UNICODE_STRING.init(name)),
                    .default => @constCast(&windows.UNICODE_STRING.empty),
                },
                .Partial,
                &stack_info_buf,
                stack_buf_len,
                &result_len,
            );
            var heap_info_buf: ?[]align(@alignOf(windows.KEY.VALUE.PARTIAL_INFORMATION)) u8 = null;
            defer if (heap_info_buf) |buf| gpa.free(buf);

            const info: *const windows.KEY.VALUE.PARTIAL_INFORMATION = switch (rc) {
                .SUCCESS => @ptrCast(&stack_info_buf),
                .BUFFER_OVERFLOW, .BUFFER_TOO_SMALL => heap_info: {
                    heap_info_buf = try gpa.alignedAlloc(u8, .of(windows.KEY.VALUE.PARTIAL_INFORMATION), result_len);
                    const heap_rc = windows.ntdll.NtQueryValueKey(
                        key.handle,
                        switch (entry) {
                            .name => |name| @constCast(&windows.UNICODE_STRING.init(name)),
                            .default => @constCast(&windows.UNICODE_STRING.empty),
                        },
                        .Partial,
                        heap_info_buf.?.ptr,
                        @intCast(heap_info_buf.?.len),
                        &result_len,
                    );
                    switch (heap_rc) {
                        .SUCCESS => break :heap_info @ptrCast(heap_info_buf.?.ptr),
                        .OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND => return error.ValueNameNotFound,
                        else => return error.StringNotFound,
                    }
                },
                .OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND => return error.ValueNameNotFound,
                else => return error.StringNotFound,
            };

            switch (info.Type) {
                .SZ => {},
                else => return error.NotAString,
            }

            const data_wtf16_with_nul = @as([*]const u16, @ptrCast(@alignCast(info.data())))[0..@divExact(info.DataLength, 2)];
            const data_wtf16 = std.mem.trimEnd(u16, data_wtf16_with_nul, L("\x00"));
            switch (result_encoding) {
                .wtf16 => return gpa.dupe(u16, data_wtf16),
                .wtf8 => return std.unicode.wtf16LeToWtf8Alloc(gpa, data_wtf16),
            }
        }