MacOS – How to remove the “Open With”context menu items caused by VMware Fusion

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I would like to clean up the massive amount of junk in my contextual menu. I have VM Fusion 5 installed and it is one of the main culprits, showing multiple entries of Windows Apps within my context menu of the Mac OX.

Example of 'junk' in my context menu for a txt file = Notepad listed 5 times, Textpad listed # times, Visual Studio listed 6-7 times, and more .

I found an article explaining what to do for a previous version of Fusion, Remove VMware Fusion and Parallels "Open With" Context Menus. I have searched and I cannot see what resembles the previous option "Open your Mac files and web links using Windows applications".

If anyone can help I would appreciate it.

The following line in the terminal worked:

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

I just don't want items returning because of Fusion.

Thank you.

Best Answer

  • Inside Fusion, open the Virtual Machine Library window – Window menu > Virtual Machine Library, or press CMD+SHIFT+L.
  • Select the VM and click the Settings button.
  • Click the Applications icon, and then select the Default Applications tab.
  • Uncheck Open your Mac files and web links using Windows applications and close the window.

Repeat the process for every VM.

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