Limit "open with" choices

Is there a way to limit the list of "open with" in the file menu? I notice with an old version of Adobe CS2 I have a bunch of useless .exe files and I hate MS files (no windows on my Mac). Obviously I don't need them but they started showing up with viewing image files. Shorting of deleting them, I'd rather just not see them anymore.

Archive 'em, that's what I did. I just left the one I do occasionally use out of the archive, and zipped all the rest, after making a list of what they were and leaving that in the folder with the zipped droplets. Be sure you also zip the ones for ImageReady--there are actually more of them there are the Photoshop ones. I doubt you'll ever miss any of them.
Francine
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I actually slightly prefer the NikonScan software to Silverfast's so I only use NikonScan with my Coolscan and scan to 14-bit RGB Tiffs.
For the larger format film, I use Silverfast with the Epson 4990 and do the same thing.
Then I open the resulting Tiffs in ACR 4.4.1 (hosted by Bridge) to do any preliminary color- and tone- corrections before proceeding to Photoshop.
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[email protected]

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http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1327379?tstart=0

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For those of you that use the Apple Mac App Store to download apps and are running into the issue of seeing your applications show up multiple times in the "Open With" command in the finder. This invoked by holding control + clicking an item in the finder and choose the "open with" choice.
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It didn't work for me. You should mention which OS X version your command was intended for. I got a path name doesn't exist error when running the command.
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