You make it seem like a huge PITA, but in my experience it's not so bad at all. Explorer shell integration works just fine for me (7zip etc.), what app is givi

You make it seem like a huge PITA, but in my experience it's not so bad at all. Explorer shell integration works just fine for me (7zip etc.), what app is giving you problems? The fact that Scoops installs apps to a specific location may be sometimes problematic, but it's also the thing that makes Scoop great. In reality it's mostly stuff like you said, a one-off process of setting the current path. The rule of thumb for the shims is to use the path with the "current" symlink. The exe in the shims folder is just a shim for CLI use, and version-specific folders are there just for updates/rollbacks. Windows may pin the "version name" path instead of the "current" path, but Scoop actually creates correct Start menu entries for GUI apps automatically (so you can pin that) or you could manually edit a .lnk's path and pin it.