Windows 7: Add Defragment Option to Right-click Menu
Posted by Siddharth Bose in Microsoft Windows 7
Defragmenting the hard disk is an essential operation. However, many people do not like to schedule defragmentation to be performed automatically. By adding the defragment option to a drive’s right-click context menu, you can manually defragment quickly and easily.
Open the Run dialog by pressing the Windows key and “R” or start a new task from the Task Manager.
Start the Registry Editor by typing “regedit” into the run dialog and press enter.
Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT >> Drive >> shell in the left pane.
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Right-click on shell and create a new key called “runas”.
Set the default value of runas in the right pane to “Defragment” by double-clicking on it.
Right-click on runas and create a new key called “command”.
Set the default value of command in the right pane to “defrag %1 –v -u” by double-clicking on it.
Restart the computer.
The right-click menu of the drives now will display the defragment option. When selected, it will start the defragmentation of that drive.
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October 27, 2010 at 8:00 am, sunpie said:
I too dont find scheduling very reliable. Also in Windows 7 there is no true automatic feature like a commercial automatic defrag would offer, something like a ‘set it to run in background and never have to bother about defrag again.’