Remove applications from the "open with" menu

How do you remove applications from the "open with" context menu? I seem to have one instance of a program for every time it was "updated." So my "open with" menu has about 8 instances of Adobe Acrobat, 3 or 4 of Word, etc. It's obnoxious and cumbersom. Any idea how to edit this context menu? Thanks.

hi joshua,
you can solve it in two ways:
1)open terminal and copy and paste:
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/\
Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister \
-kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
enter and wait the prompt
2) delete this files and restart
library/caches/com.apple.LaunchServices-xxxxx.csstore
(more than one files with the xxxx i mean number)
~/library/preferences/com.apple.launchservices.plist

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