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How does regedit.exe create empty binary values

I opened up regedit and made an empty binary value monitoring it using ProcessMonitor.exe. I set up a filter so that it included anything mentioning the registry path of the empty binary value's key and excluded everything else. When making a new binary value, it creates the unnamed one, then when I rename it to something else it deletes the unnamed one. However, it doesn't set anything with the new name, it just queries the value which returns an error until after I close the key in regedit then open it again and it now queries successfully the empty REG_BINARY.

At no point do I see any set value calls, and I looked on msdn, it doesn't say querying non-existing values creates them. How does it make the new value?

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