{"id":27185,"date":"2023-01-21T15:26:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T14:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/?p=27185"},"modified":"2023-01-21T15:26:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T14:26:41","slug":"softmaker-office-remove-context-menu-entry-on-open-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/27185\/softmaker-office-remove-context-menu-entry-on-open-with\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftMaker Office, remove context menu entry on &#8220;Open with"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remove entries from the Windows Explorer menu &#8220;Open with&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After uninstalling a piece of software, I was left with an entry for Excel files in the &#8220;Open with&#8221; dialogue. Not too tragic, but somehow these things bother me. How can I get rid of it?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/open_with_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"735\" height=\"510\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/open_with_1.jpg 735w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/open_with_1-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This can be done via the registry, so we start the registry editor. Here we navigate to the following key:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nHKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\FileExts.\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Here we find a list of file extensions. In my case I have to . &#8220;xlsx&#8221; for the Excel documents. Here we find a subkey &#8220;OpenWithList&#8221;. In my case there is an entry for &#8220;PlanMaker&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/open_with_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"979\" height=\"324\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/open_with_2.png 979w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/open_with_2-300x99.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/open_with_2-768x254.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 979px) 100vw, 979px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We delete this via the context menu.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/open_with_3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"260\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27179\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next we go to &#8220;OpenWith Progids&#8221; where we also find an entry for PlanMaker.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/open_with_4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"211\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/open_with_4.png 701w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/open_with_4-300x90.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After this is also removed, the entry is also gone.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/open_with_5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"229\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/open_with_5.png 595w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/open_with_5-300x115.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remove entries from the Windows Explorer menu &#8220;Open with&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[1558],"class_list":["post-27185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en","tag-windows-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}