How to Remove Programs from the "Open With" Context Menu in Windows

With a little Registry hacking, it’s easy to do.

The “Open With” menu is an undeniably handy feature when you open files with multiple programs.

Both Microsoft Paint and Photos are included on the “Open With” menu.

This procedure will, however, work with any third-party programs you have installed.

Inside theFileExtskey, you’ll see a list of all the file extensions registered on your PC.

Locate the key named after the file extension for the bang out of file you want to change.

Under that key, click theOpenWithListsubkey.

Here, we’re changing the “Open With” menu for .PNG image files.