Removing Open With dialog from contextual menus

Does anyone know how to remove the "Open With..." option from contextual menus?
Thanks

musicwind95 wrote:
What are you trying to do?
I'm hoping to find an option to remove the Open With dialog which I never use. If I right click on a simple JPEG to move it to the trash and happen to land on the Open With dialog it takes almost ten seconds to populate the dialog before I can move off of it. It is a consequence of having, and using, hundreds of applications. I'm also an extensive user of contextual menus. I get stuck with that unexpected delay numerous times each day. It is annoying.

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