Macintosh How To » menus http://macintoshhowto.com ...the art of macintosh maintenance... Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:51:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 How to clean up your ‘Open With’ Menu http://macintoshhowto.com/osx/how-to-clean-up-my-open-with-menu.html http://macintoshhowto.com/osx/how-to-clean-up-my-open-with-menu.html#comments Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:02:51 +0000 admin http://macintoshhowto.com/software/how-to-clean-up-my-open-with-menu.html

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This one is quite an advanced tip.
If you right-click on a file you get a little menu, and if you select ‘open with’ you get a list of all the programs you can open a file with.
After a while of installing new versions of programs, this list can become quite long!
To reset it open up a Terminal window. (from Applications/Utilities) and paste the following line:

/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user

press return wait about 20 seconds, and your open with menu will be fixed.

I think this only works on 10.4 and it may reset some other things to, like what applications open certain files.



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There are lots of little applications you can add to your menubar to do things such as see recent clipboard items, stop your mac going to sleep (eg for presentations) and so on.

This site has a real good list of them:

http://menu.jeweledplatypus.org/
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