Finder Drop Down: Open With: Killing me.

This is not a major issue but when right-clicking on the Finder, like to send something to the Trash, there is also that Open With option.
I guess I have a lot of Applications - major & minor freebies - 'cause now almost every time I get the dreaded 'spinning beachball,' if I even get near that Open With opion.
Is there a way to get rid of that whole Open With opiton in that drop-down menu or a way of reducing the number of choices that come up - most of which are ridiculous anyway.
??

Success! I zipped the Droplets than trashed the originals. Boom - they were gone.
Feeling inspired I went looking for a: "launchservices database," but since, as mentioned, it is constantly generated in real time it didn't exist -- but a preference file for it existed so I trashed that. Boom - a whole bunch of other junk was gone.
Now instead of having 64 unwanted, stupid 'Open With...' options I now only have 20 for pics (Safari, Firefox, Quicktime, Real Player and a few other unwanted choices, but Not Bad At All) and only 9 for text - 6 of them useful.
And no more spinning beachballs.
Oh Joy. A feature that was only a pain in the....is now, instead, something interesting and useful.
Thanks Francine & Mike!
(Note: I've marked both of the last two posts as: Helpful so you both get the credit -- if that actually does that; I worried that if I clicked Solved for one than I wouldn't have any more options).

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