How to Add “Defragment” in Drive Context Menu on Windows 10

Do you want to defragment your disks faster?

As you know everyone should defragment their hard drives at least once a week.

This task is done automatically in Windows 10 weekly, but if you want to do it manually it can be a little complicated.

In this tutorial, you will learn a registry hack to add “Defragment” to the right-click menu on the “This PC” window.

Let’s go!

Defragment Your Hard Disks from the Context Menu on “This PC”

Open the Run prompt using the Windows+R keyboard shortcut, type in regedit, hit Enter.

Navigate to this path:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell

Right-click on shell and choose “New” > “Key“. Name the newly created key Defragment.

Click on the “Defragment” key you created and create a new String Value named icon with the value defrag.exe.

Right-click on the “Defragment” key and choose “New” > “Key“. Name the new key command.

Change the value of the (Default) value under the key command to dfrgui.exe.

Now open your Windows Explorer, right-click on your C: drive, you should see a “Defragment” item.

All you have to do now is to click “Optimize“.

Bonus Tip: Defragment a Drive from Command Prompt

Here is a bonus command to defragment any hard drive using the age-old Command Prompt:

defrag C: /O

Now that you know how to optimize and defragment your hard drives using the right-click menu, it’s time to discover other useful & easy tutorials on easytutorial.com

If you have any questions about Windows 10 or defrag please leave a comment below.