How to remove programs from "open with".

Recently I installed VM Fusion on my new MBP with SnowLeopard. The annoying issue is that when I right click on a file from SL and select "open with" I get a long list with windows programs that I don't intend to use. Is there a way to remove those programs when I select "open with". Thank you
Juan

Juan2009 wrote:
Recently I installed VM Fusion on my new MBP with SnowLeopard. The annoying issue is that when I right click on a file from SL and select "open with" I get a long list with windows programs that I don't intend to use. Is there a way to remove those programs when I select "open with".
no, there isn't. this list is generated by the launch services database and you can't control it manually.
Juan
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