Tired of noobs complaining the WINAPI for malware development is weird. It's not. How do you create a file? The CreateFile function. How do you open a file for reading? The CreateFile function. How do you open a file for writing? The CreateFile function. How do you get a handle to a directory? The CreateFile function. How do delete a file? The CreateFile function. How do you get access to a physical disk? The CreateFile function. How do you get access to a file stream? The CreateFile function. How do you get access to the console buffer? The CreateFile function. How do you get access to pipes? The CreateFile function. How do you perform interprocess communication? The CreateFile function. Just make sure you use the appropriate version of CreateFile (CreateFileA for ANSI, or CreateFileW for wide characters). Alternatively, you can use CreateFile2 which is the same as CreateFile except the parameters are passed as a data structure named CREATEFILE2_EXTENDED_PARAMETERS. However, be aware CreateFile2 only works on Windows 8 and above and designed more or less for programs running from the Windows app store. Alternatively, alternatively, you could use CreateFile3 which is nearly identical to CreateFile2 except it uses the CREATEFILE3_EXTENDED_PARAMETERS structure and is more or less designed for sandboxed packaged applications. However, be aware CreateFile3 only works on Windows11 24H2 and above. It's shrimple, honestly.