Remove "Open With" items?

How do you remove "file association entries". If I choose "Open With" in Finder, there's a bunch of stuff that's already been uninstalled. I also have disabled SmartSelect in Parallel Desktops, but winrar.exe.app and internetexplorer.exe.app are still there.. So how do I remove those from +Open With+?
thx for your help!

Open terminal and paste this:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchSe rvices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
then hit return, takes about 30 seconds or so, voilà! None of the utilities like Onyx, Xupport and the others that reset "LaunchServices" don't work on Leopard, this command will clean your "open with" submenu. Let us know.

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Hi, I've been using OS X for quite some time, but more recently cannot see how you do the following which is proving frustrating:
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My issue is that whenever I want to use the "Open With" feature for an image/jpeg file, the list of choices is massive! Looking at it now, it lists over 30 applications, but at most I would only ever want to open this type of file in one of maybe four applications.
Starting off, I used to have Parallels on my computer. Have since purchased VMWare Fusion 4 and now use that as my virtual machine to run Windows for some of my design work. As far as I know, I had removed ALL of Parallels from my computer when I uninstalled the app. I followed all of the instructions in the uninstall process, but there seems to be something left behind.
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As much as I appreciate there being such an abundance of options to choose from, this gets extremely annoying when using the feature and I wanted to see if there was any way to modify this list.
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My system is a 2010 iMac i5 2.8GHz/8GB RAM. Lion OS X 10.7.3
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