René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Wildcard character in registry paths results in \"Illegal characters in path.\"","articleBody":"In Win10 (10.0.16275.1000) and beta6, I am unable to use powershell to modify registry keys that are named \"*\". \r\n\r\nSteps to reproduce\r\n------------------\r\n\r\n```powershell\r\nRemove-Item \"HKCU:\\Software\\Classes\\*\\shell\\\"\r\n# or try with escape\r\nRemove-Item \"HKCU:\\Software\\Classes\\``*\\shell\\\"\r\n```\r\n\r\nExpected behavior\r\n-----------------\r\n\r\n```none\r\nRegistry key is removed.\r\n```\r\n\r\nActual behavior\r\n---------------\r\n\r\n```none\r\nRemove-Item : Illegal characters in path.\r\nParameter name: path\r\nAt line:1 char:1\r\n+ Remove-Item \"HKCU:\\Software\\Classes\\``*\\shell\\\"\r\n+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\r\n    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Remove-Item], ArgumentException\r\n    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.ArgumentException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.RemoveItemCommand\r\n```\r\n\r\nEnvironment data\r\n----------------\r\n\r\n\u003c!-- provide the output of $PSVersionTable --\u003e\r\n\r\n```powershell\r\n\u003e $PSVersionTable\r\nName                           Value\r\n----                           -----\r\nPSVersion                      6.0.0-beta\r\nPSEdition                      Core\r\nGitCommitId                    v6.0.0-beta.6\r\nOS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.16275\r\nPlatform                       Win32NT\r\nPSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}\r\nPSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3\r\nSerializationVersion           1.1.0.1\r\nWSManStackVersion              3.0\r\n```\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/jared-is-ray","@type":"Person","name":"jared-is-ray"},"datePublished":"2017-08-30T17:12:06.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":5},"url":"https://github.com/4704/PowerShell/issues/4704"}