How to just display file type friendly name in open file dialog

[Farmer777]

Hello,

I have set a filter of my open file dialog through the SetFileTypes function;

const COMDLG_FILTERSPEC c_OpenTypes[] = {
{L"7zip Archive", L"*.7zip"}
};

hr = pFileOpen->SetFileTypes(ARRAYSIZE(c_OpenTypes), c_OpenTypes);

This shows;

7zip Archive (*.7zip)

in the filter drop-down list of the open file dialog. How can I just display the file type friendly name "7zip Archive" instead?

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