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Clear-ItemProperty



This is the built-in help made by Microsoft for the command 'Clear-ItemProperty', in PowerShell version 4 - as retrieved from Windows version 'Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise' PowerShell help files on 2016-06-23.

For PowerShell version 3 and up, where you have Update-Help, this command was run just before creating the web pages from the help files.

SYNOPSIS

Deletes the value of a property but does not delete the property.

SYNTAX


Clear-ItemProperty [-Path] <String[]> [-Name] <String> [-Credential <PSCredential>] [-Exclude <String[]>] [-Filter <String>] [-Force] [-Include <String[]>] [-PassThru
] [-Confirm] [-WhatIf] [-UseTransaction [<SwitchParameter>]] [<CommonParameters>]
Clear-ItemProperty [-Name] <String> [-Credential <PSCredential>] [-Exclude <String[]>] [-Filter <String>] [-Force] [-Include <String[]>] [-PassThru] -LiteralPath <Str
ing[]> [-Confirm] [-WhatIf] [-UseTransaction [<SwitchParameter>]] [<CommonParameters>]



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DESCRIPTION


The Clear-ItemProperty cmdlet deletes the value of a property, but it does not delete the property. You can use this cmdlet to delete the data from a registry value.



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RELATED LINKS

Online Version: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=289801
Copy-ItemProperty
Get-ItemProperty
Move-ItemProperty
New-ItemProperty
Rename-ItemProperty
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REMARKS

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Examples


-------------------------- EXAMPLE 1 --------------------------

PS C:\>clear-itemproperty -path HKLM:\Software\MyCompany\MyApp -name Options



This command deletes the data in the Options registry value in the MyApp subkey of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\MyCompany.

Because the command is being issued from a file system drive (C:), it uses the fully qualified path to the HKLM: drive and the Software\MyCompany\MyApp subkey. It use
s the Name parameter to specify the Options value.