Accessing wordpad ole objects in windows 11 2H24

Upgrading to a Windows 11 PC resulted in losing the ability to access embedded Wordpad objects (OLE) in documents I have-  And I have quite a few.

I understand the Microsoft removed Wordpad starting with the 2H24 Windows 11 release, so It cannot just be "activated" as an optional component.

I have reviewed means of restoring Wordpad in Windows 11, and have copied the necessary files (Wordpad.exe, WordpadFilter.dll and wordpad.exe.mui) to my Windows 11 PC.  I can now run Wordpad on my new PC, but cannot access the Wordpad objects embedded in my documents.  I get an error "cannot start the source application for this object"

I seem to recall that OLE requires an application to register for OLE support, but I have found nothing detailing how to do that for Wordpad.  I thought there might be a command line option, but Wordpad /? and Wordpad /help did not return anything.

Does anyone know how to do this?