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A long time ago I had installed wine for emulating Photoshop CS5, but as it din't do a good job I uninstalled it. But even after uinstalling it I still have wine programs on the right click context menu.

How do I get rid of these ???

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Run the below command in terminal 

nautilus ~/.local/share/applications

Look for wine related files like wine-extension-chm.desktop, wine-extension-txt.desktop, wine-extension-xml.desktop .... and delete them.

How to get rid of wine programs in the right click context menu?

Once thats done you should not be seeing any of the wine related programs on the right click context menu.

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Wow that was fast! I'l try that and get back to ya. – Bernard Krigstein May 10 '12 at 9:24
It worked like a charm!! thanks mate you helped me fix a problem that was literally driving me crazy for a while. – Bernard Krigstein May 10 '12 at 9:29
Glad I could help ;-) – Srinivas Gowda May 10 '12 at 9:30

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