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- Thread starter borthwick
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Hello borthwick,
First you have to think hard why you do not want it appearing there. Solely annoying is often not a sufficient reason.
Now, this is how you do it. Every application/program appearing in the window in question reflects from an entry in the registry. Take a utterly innocent program which I do not use at all : Viewer.exe. It gets its place in the registry key :
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\Applications\Viewer.exe]
under its subkey \Shell you will find a value named "FriendlyCache":
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\Applications\Viewer.exe\Shell]
"FriendlyCache"="VIEWER"
Its value "VIEWER" is the description appearing in the open-with window.
To prohibit it from appearing in the open-with window for selection, at the same time not disabling its other proper functions, you add the an empty string value to a value-key named "NoOpenWith". With .reg format, it is like this:
For any other application/program, the same applies.
regards - tsuji
First you have to think hard why you do not want it appearing there. Solely annoying is often not a sufficient reason.
Now, this is how you do it. Every application/program appearing in the window in question reflects from an entry in the registry. Take a utterly innocent program which I do not use at all : Viewer.exe. It gets its place in the registry key :
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\Applications\Viewer.exe]
under its subkey \Shell you will find a value named "FriendlyCache":
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\Applications\Viewer.exe\Shell]
"FriendlyCache"="VIEWER"
Its value "VIEWER" is the description appearing in the open-with window.
To prohibit it from appearing in the open-with window for selection, at the same time not disabling its other proper functions, you add the an empty string value to a value-key named "NoOpenWith". With .reg format, it is like this:
Code:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\Applications\Viewer.exe]
"NoOpenWith"=""For any other application/program, the same applies.
regards - tsuji
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