How to add Defrag.exe to right click context menu

Tech Blogs, HowTo, Blogging, Windows December 2nd, 2006

Here is a simple tweak on how to add Defrag.exe to the right click context menu.The tweak works only with win. xp and home.

Open Notepad and paste in the following code :

[version]
signature=”$CHICAGO$”
[DefaultInstall]
AddReg=AddMe
[AddMe]
HKCR,”Drive\Shell\Defrag\command”,,,”DEFRAG.EXE %1″

When you are done click Save file as,choose a location,choose to save file as All files and save it as context_defrag.INF
When that’s done, right click on context_defrag.INF file and click install.

Now go to one of your hard drives and right click.You’ll now see Defrag.exe on the right click menu.

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4 Comments to “How to add Defrag.exe to right click context menu”

Nancy | December 3rd, 2006 at 8:15 pm

After fixing up word wrap and checking my quotes after pasting, it worked like a dream. Thanks for the tip.
carol | December 3rd, 2006 at 9:37 pm

Glad it worked Nancy.
If you want something that works without you doing anything,then download Iobit SmartDefrag.
Set it and he’ll do the job for you.
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Shivaranjan | December 7th, 2006 at 9:58 am

I had to add this to make it work

; context_defrag.INF