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Microsoft Shell Controls and Automation

Microsoft Shell Controls and Automation allows to program the Windows Shell with COM.

Misc

The GUID of version 1.0 seems to be {50A7E9B0-70EF-11D1-B75A-00A0C90564FE}.
The functionality is implemented by shell32.dll, located under %SystemRoot%\SysWOW64 rather than %SYSTEMROOT%\System32.

See also

Useful COM object libraries

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