I think what Adam meant was remove unnecessary associations between apps
and file types. I had the same problem, especially with text files, and
there is a semi-solution.

<http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030730161311391>

hope this helps

Andy



Matthew Healey wrote:

>
>On 15/02/2005, at 10:14 AM, Adam Yap wrote:
>
>> I have "zillions" of things in my "Open with" contextual menu in 
>> finder. It's slow and huge. Does anyone know how to clean these up?
>>
>> Adam
>
>This is a dynamic menu that is created when you click on a file. These 
>apps advertise the fact that they can open certain types of files, 
>thus, they show up when you click on that file.
>
>The only way to remove them from that menu is to remove the app from 
>the computer.
>
>- Matt
>
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