Editing 'Open With...' Contextual Menu

Greetings MR!

While within another thread, a specific question arose several times, but never got addressed before the thread died.

Problem:
If you have the Adobe Creative Suite installed on your machine, and select "Open With..." you will get a rediculously long list of Photoshop mini-apps to open the file with. It's a huge inconvenience having to wade through a whole long list of useless Photoshop .exe's to get to the program I want.


Screenshot courtesy: neocell

Solution?
Is it possible to edit this menu to eliminate those volumes of Photoshop .exe programs? I've never attempted deleting them entirely for fear of how Photoshop may behave. Is it possible just to delete them? How could we exclude them from the 'Open With...' menu?

Any help is much appreciated by myself and many other MR members!

 

Based on the replies thus far, this is an issue for many people. Lacero provided the solution to just delete the Photoshop .exe's, as I had mentioned in the original post. However, does anybody have any experience whether or not this adversely affects the performance of Photoshop?

 

Thanks neocell! That really went a long way in providing an explanation and initial fix for the issue.

So MacRumors UNIX geeks and code-heads: Is there a more user-friendly option out there?

 

SOLUTION

Well, I think I may have found a solution to this issue. After inspecting how the .exe's were being used, and where they were located, I determined that they are not a crucial part of Photoshop/Illustrator functionality.

The files are located within the directory "Applications/Photoshop CS2/Samples/Droplets/..." The fact that they reside within the samples directory led me to my initial conclusion. What I did, to remove them from the menu, while avoiding deletion was right-click the "Droplets" folder, and select "Create Archive of 'Droplets'...". This compressed all of those applications into a .zip located within the "Samples" directory. As soon as they are not "available" anymore, the "Open With..." menu does not recognize them as options.

I have been able to remove them (with the above method) and re-instate them instantly by unzipping the "Droplets.zip" file. It's a non-destructive method that produces instant results.

Below is my Before and After:

 

Thank you

It's not often that I can do that, so I'm really glad to be able to share!

 

For some reason it didn't really register then. But you're correct. Good work Lacero!

 

That is interesting. Perhaps it was an option in the Install that either you or I selected/deselected? I dont' remember my install...