How do I operate on (default) property of Registry provider?

1) Registry keys have so called default properties (with no name?). How do I
operate on them? For example how do I remove them?

Let's

0> Get-ItemProperty aa
....
p1 :
(default) :

(i.e. we have 2 properties including (default))

I tried:

0> Remove-ItemProperty aa '(default)'
… Property (default) does not exist at path HKEY_CURRENT_USER\a1\aa.

0> Remove-ItemProperty aa ''
… Cannot bind argument to parameter 'Name' because it is an empty string.

But Set-ItemProperty works with '(default)':

0> Set-ItemProperty aa '(default)' $null
0> Set-ItemProperty aa '(default)' 123
0> Set-ItemProperty aa '(default)' ''


2) Then, more fun: if I add a value with name '(default)' manually using
Regedit then I can't get properties at all:

0> Get-ItemProperty aa
… The member "(default)" is already present.

Is it a bug or what?

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Thanks,
Roman

Perhaps, to avoid misunderstanding, I have to add that new keys have no such
(default) properties. Moreover, I can remove them manually by Regedit. But I
cannot remove them by PowerShell (or don't know how). And the same problems
are with copying them and etc.

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Thanks,
Roman

Definitely looks like a bug. Please file it on http://connect.microsoft.com/.

Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for letting us know.

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June Blender [MSFT]
Windows PowerShell Documentation
Microsoft Corporation
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"Roman Kuzmin" wrote:

> 1) Registry keys have so called default properties (with no name?). How do I
> operate on them? For example how do I remove them?
>
> Let's
>
> 0> Get-ItemProperty aa
> ...
> p1 :
> (default) :
>
> (i.e. we have 2 properties including (default))
>
> I tried:
>
> 0> Remove-ItemProperty aa '(default)'
> … Property (default) does not exist at path HKEY_CURRENT_USER\a1\aa.
>
> 0> Remove-ItemProperty aa ''
> … Cannot bind argument to parameter 'Name' because it is an empty string.
>
> But Set-ItemProperty works with '(default)':
>
> 0> Set-ItemProperty aa '(default)' $null
> 0> Set-ItemProperty aa '(default)' 123
> 0> Set-ItemProperty aa '(default)' ''
>
>
> 2) Then, more fun: if I add a value with name '(default)' manually using
> Regedit then I can't get properties at all:
>
> 0> Get-ItemProperty aa
> … The member "(default)" is already present.
>
> Is it a bug or what?
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Roman

"June Blender (MSFT)" <juneb@remove_this_part_microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:77D088A4-E772-432F-8784-D8B6D93C133B@microsoft.com...
> Definitely looks like a bug. Please file it on
> http://connect.microsoft.com/.

Done,
https://connect.microsoft.com/feedba...0076&SiteID=99

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Thanks,
Roman Kuzmin