diff --git a/src/System.Management.Automation/namespaces/SafeTransactionHandle.cs b/src/System.Management.Automation/namespaces/SafeTransactionHandle.cs
index 896ac3a2f..797193cc6 100644
--- a/src/System.Management.Automation/namespaces/SafeTransactionHandle.cs
+++ b/src/System.Management.Automation/namespaces/SafeTransactionHandle.cs
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal
             // CommitableTransaction will use DTC APIs under the covers to get KTM transaction manager interface. 
             // KTM is kernel Transaction Manager to handle file, registry etc and MSDTC provides an integration support 
             // with KTM to handle transaction across kernel resources and MSDTC resources like SQL, MSMQ etc. 
-            // We need KTMRM service as well. WinPE doesn?t have these services installed 
+            // We need KTMRM service as well. WinPE doesn’t have these services installed 
             if (Utils.IsWinPEHost() || PsUtils.IsRunningOnProcessorArchitectureARM())
             {
                 throw new NotSupportedException(RegistryProviderStrings.NotSupported_KernelTransactions);
diff --git a/src/System.Management.Automation/namespaces/TransactedRegistryKey.cs b/src/System.Management.Automation/namespaces/TransactedRegistryKey.cs
index 0c8fe9848..11e7de70e 100644
--- a/src/System.Management.Automation/namespaces/TransactedRegistryKey.cs
+++ b/src/System.Management.Automation/namespaces/TransactedRegistryKey.cs
@@ -191,14 +191,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal
                 {
                     SafeRegistryHandle nonTxKey = null;
                     SafeRegistryHandle txKey = null;
-                    if (!Platform.HasRegistrySupport())
-                    {
-                        error = 1;
-                    }
-                    else
-                    {
-                        error = Win32Native.RegOpenKeyEx(hkey, lpSubKey, ulOptions, samDesired, out nonTxKey);
-                    }
+                    error = Win32Native.RegOpenKeyEx(hkey, lpSubKey, ulOptions, samDesired, out nonTxKey);
                     // If we got some error on this open, just ignore it and continue on with the handle
                     // we got on the original RegOpenKeyTransacted.
                     if (Win32Native.ERROR_SUCCESS == error)