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by joegibbs 854 days ago
If it was up to me I'd make adding options to the context menu something that you can't do without specifically choosing to in the control panel. Applications could supply context options to the OS but those shouldn't be displayed without the user going in and allowing each one specifically.
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Funny enough Microsoft has already had this battle with the Start menu https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030903-00/?p=42...
Funny enough the program what did found the way to add itself to the pinned list on the Task Bar is.. Google Chrome.
What's actually sad is that Microsoft Edge and its new features are literally doing all of that right now.
That's a great little blog post

I forgot about what the torrent of links that would find themselves in the IE favourites page