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I am trying to simplify my approach to pinning apps, and I have found something with potential that uses 

$shell = New-Object -Com Shell.Application
$nameSpace = $shell.NameSpace('shell:::{4234d49b-0245-4df3-b780-3893943456e1}')

This produces a list of programs, which I can then look for available Verbs on. Woot. In Windows 10. The GUID doesn't exist in Windows 7. I dug up the GUID (HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{4234d49b-0245-4df3-b780-3893943456e1}) and the default value of the InProcServer32 key is C:\Windows\System32\appresolver.dll. That makes sense, I need to resolve available apps. So, I did some searching and appresolver.dll is a Windows 10 thing. So, is there a mechanism to list all available programs in Windows 10 also?

My ultimate goal is to expand this solution to support all verbs but Pin to Taskbar in Windows 10 (which is a special case) and also use the [CosmosKey.Util.MuiHelper] type to resolve language localized Verb strings. But until I can get a list of program objects that contains a Verbs() collection I am at a loss.

Gordon
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