Personally, I do not like test functions having a chance of spitting out errors, so here is what I would do. This function also doubles as a filter that you can use to filter a list of registry keys to only keep the ones that have a certain key.
Function Test-RegistryValue {
param(
[Alias("PSPath")]
[Parameter(Position = 0, Mandatory = $true, ValueFromPipeline = $true, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = $true)]
[String]$Path
,
[Parameter(Position = 1, Mandatory = $true)]
[String]$Name
,
[Switch]$PassThru
)
process {
if (Test-Path $Path) {
$Key = Get-Item -LiteralPath $Path
if ($Key.GetValue($Name, $null) -ne $null) {
if ($PassThru) {
Get-ItemProperty $Path $Name
} else {
$true
}
} else {
$false
}
} else {
$false
}
}
}