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The things in the image I have crossed out are the ones I want to remove. I have already tried the various NirSoft utilities, none of them will remove the default windows items.
I've also tried regedit but editing the openwithlist entries still didn't prevent the default entries from showing up in the "open with" menu.
How do I kill these things for good?
Gabardine
Posted 2013-07-17T16:26:49.603
Reputation: 101
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To remove items from this list, locate the following registry key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.<Fileextension>\OpenWithList
Delete here the entries you don't need.
Source:
http://unlockforus.blogspot.de/2009/06/how-to-remove-invalid-open-with-menu.html
magicandre1981
Posted 2013-07-17T16:26:49.603
Reputation: 86 560
Were you not paying attention? Your solution does not work for default windows items. – Gabardine – 2013-07-17T22:34:26.463
Why would you want to? Anyway, I think Windows always shows every app he knows that can open the file. – ranisalt – 2013-07-17T16:29:04.213
relevant kb but not to this version of windows
– Raystafarian – 2013-07-17T16:33:17.3101Because I'm obsessive compulsive about reducing clutter. I never use these programs, I never want to see them. – Gabardine – 2013-07-17T17:54:45.033