Windows Shell Integration Today — Context Menus, File Associations, and What Changed in Windows 11 (archived 2026-08-30)
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Why a Windows 11 context menu hides items behind "Show more options", explained from the extension → ProgID → verb association basics through classic shell-extension caveats to the new IExplorerCommand and MSIX/sparse-package path. Archived version of https://comcomponent.com/en/blog/windows-shell-integration-context-menu-file-association/, as published on 2026-08-30. The live article is maintained and may change after this date. First published 2026-08-20.
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View paper (DOI)Open access versionOpenAlexZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)Published 2026-08-30
Authors: Go Komura
Institutions: Fujikura (United States)