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as far as I have understood this, Microsoft want's us to use the IExplorerCommand-way to provide context menu items for shell extensions (optional in Windows 7 to 10, required in Windows 11)

(is that correct? I hope so?)

so, does that mean, that we should not / can not use the shellex\ContextMenuHandlers-way anymore? (if we don't want our commands to be placed into the "show more" sub menu ??)

if that's also the case... then... how can I create a context menu that shows my commands when I right click on the empty space of my root folder or all the folders that are not directories (for directories, there is a \background sub key in the registry that I can use) ... I can place my commands into every context menu I want, exept into the folders (not representing a directory or the desktop) of my shell namespace extension

... how's that working?

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did you hear about this new product on the market? it's called Windows 11 and... they changed everything (for context menus at least)... and, as always, documention is enormously unusable and not understandable...

I don't say, that it's a step in the right direction what they do... it seems to be a good thing, but... documentation is horrible and the examples not working or at least not helpful

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Documentation is not perfect and Windows11 hasn't released. Which examples don‘t work?

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take this site

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2021/07/19/extending-the-context-menu-and-share-dialog-in-windows-11/

they mention an example but I've no idea how to create something like the "App example with 1 verb" (that seems not to be in the example) and even the context menu entries in the example seem not to show up...

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