Powershell - Remove all properties in a registry item - powershell

Question

The following functions actually does the trick:
function Remove-AllItemProperties([String] $path) {
Get-ItemProperty $path | Get-Member -MemberType Properties | Foreach-Object {
if (("PSChildName","PSDrive","PSParentPath","PSPath","PSProvider") -notcontains $_.Name) {
Remove-itemproperty -path $path -Name $_.Name
}
}
}
For example: To delete all typed urls from the registry you can use
Remove-AllItemProperties("HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs")
My Problems are:
Since im relatively new to Powershell: I wonder if there is not a more beautiful (i.e. compact solution for the problem.
The functions throws an error if the item (registry key) has no properties (Get-Member complains about a missing object).
Thanks for your ideas!

Answer 1

I wonder if there is not a more beautiful (i.e. compact solution for the problem.
I would simply use Remove-ItemProperty -Name *:
function Remove-AllItemProperties
{
[CmdletBinding()]
param([string]$Path)
Remove-ItemProperty -Name * #PSBoundParameters
}
Remove-ItemProperty -Name * will remove any existing value in the registry key at $Path.
The [CmdletBinding()] attribute will automatically add Common Parameters (-Verbose, -Debug, -ErrorAction etc.) to your function.
By splatting $PSBoundParameters to the inner call, you automatically pass these options directly to Remove-ItemProperty
The functions throws an error if the item (registry key) has no properties (Get-Member complains about a missing object).
The above approach won't have that problem