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Tuesday, August 21

Add "defrag a drive" in right click menu

Disk defragmentation is a useful tool to boost up the performance of your system and you should generally defrag your drives once every two weeks.
But are you fed up of the long method, opening "Disk Defragmenter" and then selecting drives and then clicking the defrag option.??

Wouldn't it be cool if you got a shorter way to achieve the same process...how about a simple right click...?? ;-)


You can easily achieve this effect in WINDOWS 7 by a small registry trick. You can then defrag a drive by going to My Computer->right-click the drive->choose defrag.

Step 1->
Open "regedit" from the RUN(win key+R) dialog box, and navigate to the following key.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell

Step 2->
Right click on "shell" and select the option "create a new key". Type its name as "runas" (without the quotes).
Look in the right pane and right click the (Default) icon and select "modify data". Type in "Defragment".
Actually whatever you will type here will appear in the right click menu in My Computer. You should now be having this.


Step 3->
Now right click on "runas" and again "create a new key". Type its name as "command". In the right pane, the key is created. Right click and click on "modify data".
Type in "defrag %1 -v"
You should have this now.

 
Press the F5 key, this refreshes the registry. Open My computer and right click any drive. I hope you get it.. :-)
As you click on Defragment, a cmd terminal will open up that starts defragmentation of the drive.


Enjoy..and stay tuned...

For Beginners who are scared to edit the registry:-  

You can download the files for automatic process here. Just extract the file and double click on .reg file that says addDefrag.

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