finding all apps that can open a given file ?

Targets Windows
#1

I HAVE to be overthinking this
IS there no straight forward API on windows to find out which apps can handle a given file type ?
So far everything I’ve found results in “well look in the registry and …”
That seems way wrong

#2

Sorted on discord, putting it here for search

AssocQueryStringW

#3

Yeah tanks !

#4