Cleaning the Script Menu in Photoshop

Is there a way to clean the script menu in Photoshop? I'm launching most of my scripts from shortcuts on my Wacom Tablet and from Windows Explorer, and everytime I do one of those two options, since I'm not launching the script from the script menu, it adds a copy of the script name to the menu, thinking it's a new script. Is there a way to clean that menu, to tell it to show only the scripts in the scripts file and not every single script I launch from Windows Explorer or shortcuts?
Because now I can't use the script menu anymore because there are too many things. Every script is the at least 10 times and the list is now twice as long as my screen.

Scripts edited in ESTK and run with ESTK as the target app stay in ESTK until
you restart ESTK. The JS interpreter is ESTK is persistent across script
invocations. Bridge operates the same way, unless you #target different
interpreters.
In PS, if you have a script in Presets/Scripts and start PS, it will stay in the
File->Scripts menu until you restart PS. It will stay in the menu even if you
delete the file from disk but will not execute if it is selected. The JS
interpreter is PS recreated for each new script invocation.
On situation in which two scripts with the same name can occur in the Script
menu is if you have two scripts with the same name in two different folders
under the Presets/Scripts folder.
One other possibility (that I haven't verified) in CS3 is if you have one script
in app.path + '/Presets/Scripts' (the 'normal' scripts folder) and another in
Folder.userData + '/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop CS3/Presets/Scripts'. This Presets
folder is where user-specific mods to Presets tree should be located. I have
scripts that have to run as far back as CS so I haven't had to worry about this yet.
-X
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