"Open With" command locks up

If I right mouse button click on something like an image and click on "Open With," the function locks things up and forces me to do a relaunch on Finder. This has been going on for quite some time, so I don't know where along the line the problem first cropped up. It gets frustrating when right mouse button clicking and wanting to delete something. Unless I'm very careful, I will sometimes accidentally go through the "Open With" line and then the thing just locks up and I'm forced to relaunch Finder. Any suggestions on what the problem might be?

try rebuilding the launch services database.
run the following command in terminal:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchSe rvices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user

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Has anyone else come across this behaviour ... and more importantly, does anyone know what is the cause of this and how to resolve the issue ??
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Has anyone else come across this behaviour ... ??
Nope, when I right-click a JPEG, Open With, Photoshop CS5 results in Photoshop CS5 x64 starting and the image opening.
I tested it with both Photoshop not running and with Photoshop already running.
I have Windows 7 x64 Ultimate.
You say the system reports an error... Have you looked in the Windows System Event Log (or Application Event Log)? More information may be provided there.
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“Open with Explorer” may not work if you have 64-bit Internet Explorer and 64-bit Microsoft Office installed.
from TechNet blog with some more options to explore
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