<div class="content" name="GetTotalHistoryCount" uuid="5c7b54b0-d86c-4e76-8017-fcd61b387332"><p>The IUpdateSearcher::GetTotalHistoryCount (opnum 23) method
retrieves the total number of history events stored on the computer.</p><dl>
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<div><pre> HRESULT GetTotalHistoryCount(
   [out, retval] LONG* retval
 );
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</dd></dl><p><b>retval: </b>The total number of history entries
stored on the computer.</p><p><b>Return Values: </b>The method MUST return
information in an <b>HRESULT</b> data structure. The severity bit in the
structure identifies the following conditions:</p><ul><li><p><span><span>  </span></span>If
the severity bit is set to 0, the method completed successfully.</p>
</li><li><p><span><span>  </span></span>If
the severity bit is set to 1, the method failed and encountered a fatal error.</p>
</li></ul><p><b>Exceptions Thrown:</b> No exceptions are thrown beyond
those thrown by the underlying RPC protocol <span><a href="../ms-rpce/290c38b1-92fe-4229-91e6-4fc376610c15" data-linktype="relative-path">[MS-RPCE]</a></span>.</p><p>This method SHOULD return the value of the <b>HistoryCount</b>
ADM element.</p></div>