HRESULT 0x8010006E (SCARD_W_CANCELLED_BY

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the user cancelled a smart-card selection or credential operation.

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SCARD_W_CANCELLED_BY_USER

Expected cancellation from user interaction

SCARD_W_CANCELLED_BY_USER means that the user cancelled a smart-card user-interface flow, such as a card-selection dialog. It should be handled as a deliberate outcome of an interactive operation, not as a defective card, reader, certificate, or PIN. In particular, it differs from SCARD_E_CANCELLED, which is associated with programmatic cancellation through SCardCancel.

Good callers preserve this distinction because it determines what the user sees next. Showing a hardware-error message after the user selected Cancel is misleading, while silently retrying can reopen a dialog the user explicitly dismissed.

Recommended behavior

Return to the calling workflow with an explicit cancelled state and do not attempt a background reconnect.
Separate user cancellation telemetry from reader and authentication failures.
Use SCardCancel only for outstanding wait operations in the relevant resource-manager context; it is a different mechanism.

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