Finder Open With Menu

I'm trying to clean up a Parallels installation, I got tired of it locking up my system when shutting down the VM, any way it added a host of Windows Applications to the Open With Menu in Finder.
I've tried following a few older suggestions such as deleteing the com.apple.LaunchServices.plist from ~/LIbrary/Preferences folder, however this trick doesn't appear to have any affect on finder 10.5
So Im at a loss on how to clean this up...
Any help is greatly appreciated...
Thank yoiu

rebuild your launch services database.
run the following terminal command
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user

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Photoscene-
I'm not sure this addresses your exact situation or not, but the following link:
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As seen here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305627
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http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/15030/how-can-i-add-a-new-application-t o-the-open-with-menu
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Using nautilus, I used to have an "open with" menu showing a list of alternative applications to open a file, such as in this picture:
https://ubuntugenius.files.wordpress.co … .png?w=500
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I could not find anything on the internet related to this vanishing of the "open with" menu.
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Last edited by charlie (2015-04-14 14:49:02)

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