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Cmdlets can have provider-specific parameters, so in this case I would add a registry-provider-specific data type parameter with sensible default behavior to New-Item and Set-Content.

For example...

Set-Content hklm:\software\xyz\abc -value 1

...could create a DWORD value by default based on the type of the value argument, while adding '-DataType String' would enable creating a string value.