File Explorer > Open With > remove Windows Store & Metro apps?

ltwally · 25 Sep 2016

If you right-click on a file, the Open With menu will have suggestions for any Metro app that thinks it can handle the file-type, as well as the Windows Store.

The Windows Store is useless to me, and I have yet to see a single Metro app worth using.

I'd like to remove these suggestions from the Open With menu. Any ideas how to go about this?

Thanks

dalchina · 26 Sep 2016

A web search for
remove from open with
suggests a registry edit
Remove Programs from the Open With Menu in Explorer

Now note that update checks for universal apps are scheduled every 4 hours.
I cannot tell you if an update will cause the key to be recreated.

Personally the risk presented by reg. editing outweighs the minor inconvenience of seeing sthg you don't want - and I find I rarely use Open With- and when I do there's a list of desktop programs.