How to invoke Windows programs on a file from dired

The Emacs analog to Windows Explorer is dired (directory editor). In 
Windows Explorer you can select a file, right-click, and select an 
operation to perform on that file. In Emacs dired you can select a file 
and perform an operation on that file.

However the set of operations Emacs knows about is different from the 
set of operations Windows Explorer knows about.  In addition to the 
usual dired operations, I'd really like to be able to run the operations 
Windows Explorer knows about from within the Windows version of Emacs.  
Does anyone know if this capability has ever been implemented?  If so, 
what do I need to install?

    Mark Rosenthal